| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lofts (0) - 1 freq loats (1) - 2 freq lufts (1) - 2 freq lofty (1) - 4 freq loft (1) - 13 freq lots (1) - 80 freq lifts (1) - 42 freq lowss (2) - 13 freq wafts (2) - 8 freq dorts (2) - 8 freq cotts (2) - 3 freq volts (2) - 3 freq low's (2) - 2 freq dowts (2) - 4 freq loghs (2) - 1 freq boots (2) - 92 freq doots (2) - 35 freq lats (2) - 26 freq pots (2) - 46 freq lowes (2) - 6 freq lobs (2) - 2 freq plowts (2) - 1 freq luts (2) - 3 freq loves (2) - 68 freq loses (2) - 6 freq |
lofts (0) - 1 freq lifts (1) - 42 freq lufts (1) - 2 freq loats (2) - 2 freq lots (2) - 80 freq lofty (2) - 4 freq loft (2) - 13 freq aloft (3) - 3 freq lefty (3) - 2 freq lft (3) - 2 freq left (3) - 1591 freq lents (3) - 1 freq leits (3) - 1 freq leets (3) - 18 freq lotsa (3) - 1 freq lifes (3) - 48 freq lyfis (3) - 1 freq left's (3) - 1 freq lets (3) - 74 freq lests (3) - 3 freq loufs (3) - 1 freq lits (3) - 15 freq hefts (3) - 39 freq clefts (3) - 1 freq left' (3) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - L132 lifts - 42 freq lapdug - 4 freq lapdug's - 1 freq liftcd - 1 freq layaboots - 1 freq lufts - 2 freq 'leftish' - 1 freq lapdog - 2 freq lift's - 2 freq laavets - 1 freq lofts - 1 freq lap-dug - 1 freq left's - 1 freq life-thochts - 1 freq leviticus - 4 freq leftist - 1 freq low-pitched - 1 freq lbahttdxhf - 1 freq lvtxl - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - LFTS lifts - 42 freq lights - 104 freq lufts - 2 freq light's - 2 freq lift's - 2 freq laavets - 1 freq lights' - 1 freq lofts - 1 freq lyght's - 1 freq left's - 1 freq |
LOFTS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.218972 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 - 0.363487 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 - 0.030396 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 - 0.040059 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 - 0.000956 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. |