| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| icecream (0) - 2 freq ice-cream (1) - 10 freq scream (3) - 67 freq 'cream (3) - 1 freq icecap (3) - 1 freq ice-creamer (3) - 1 freq ceram (3) - 1 freq cream (3) - 139 freq cereal (3) - 15 freq suncream (3) - 1 freq crem (4) - 2 freq brecham (4) - 5 freq secrecy (4) - 4 freq oercam (4) - 1 freq scream' (4) - 1 freq ream (4) - 4 freq ihere's (4) - 5 freq saecret (4) - 1 freq certan (4) - 1 freq beckham (4) - 2 freq sicecar (4) - 2 freq increase (4) - 19 freq brylcream (4) - 1 freq reread (4) - 2 freq iece (4) - 1 freq |
icecream (0) - 2 freq ice-cream (2) - 10 freq ceram (4) - 1 freq 'cream (4) - 1 freq scream (4) - 67 freq cream (4) - 139 freq cram (5) - 2 freq scram (5) - 1 freq scorem (5) - 1 freq occam (5) - 1 freq creamy (5) - 18 freq crem (5) - 2 freq icecap (5) - 1 freq ice-creamer (5) - 1 freq cereal (5) - 15 freq suncream (5) - 1 freq i'crew (6) - 2 freq icam (6) - 1 freq screamt (6) - 4 freq recreate (6) - 1 freq creams (6) - 9 freq ccea (6) - 1 freq creak (6) - 13 freq decree (6) - 12 freq chirm (6) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - I226 ice-creamer - 1 freq ice-kirstal - 1 freq ice-cream - 10 freq icecream - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - ISKRM ice-cream - 10 freq icecream - 2 freq |
ICECREAM |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.210140 milliseconds The Levenshtein distance is the number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another, its useful for detecting typos and alternative spellings |
Time to execute Double Levenshtein function - 0.412596 milliseconds In a stroke of genius, this runs the Levenshtein function twice, once without vowels and adds the distance together, giving double weight to consonants. |
Time to execute SoundEx function - 0.028422 milliseconds Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling. |
Time to execute MetaPhone function - 0.037871 milliseconds Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.[1] It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar. |
Time to execute Manually curated function - 0.000883 milliseconds Manual Curation uses a lookup table / lexicon which has been created by hand which links words to their lemmas, and includes obvious typos and spelling variations. Not all words are covered. |