| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mailing (0) - 3 freq railing (1) - 6 freq mailins (1) - 1 freq failing (1) - 2 freq nailing (1) - 3 freq wailing (1) - 1 freq sailing (1) - 6 freq mailin (1) - 3 freq masking (2) - 1 freq railin (2) - 12 freq dailins (2) - 4 freq mating (2) - 1 freq marking (2) - 5 freq milin (2) - 2 freq sapling (2) - 2 freq cairling (2) - 1 freq gaining (2) - 2 freq tailin (2) - 1 freq ailin (2) - 2 freq caining (2) - 1 freq piling (2) - 1 freq bawling (2) - 1 freq carling (2) - 3 freq failin (2) - 27 freq toiling (2) - 2 freq |
mailing (0) - 3 freq wailing (2) - 1 freq mailin (2) - 3 freq nailing (2) - 3 freq sailing (2) - 6 freq failing (2) - 2 freq railing (2) - 6 freq mailins (2) - 1 freq malink (3) - 2 freq mixing (3) - 2 freq toiling (3) - 2 freq boiling (3) - 2 freq baling (3) - 1 freq aisling (3) - 1 freq maudling (3) - 1 freq piling (3) - 1 freq smiling (3) - 16 freq milking (3) - 1 freq making (3) - 57 freq milling (3) - 1 freq mating (3) - 1 freq emailin (3) - 1 freq filing (3) - 1 freq milin (3) - 2 freq hauling (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - M452 millions - 66 freq melancholy - 15 freq 'millions - 2 freq malink - 2 freq mealmaker - 5 freq malunch - 1 freq melancholic - 2 freq milngavie - 1 freq mellins - 1 freq milne's - 1 freq mallimaks - 1 freq millins - 1 freq malinconia - 1 freq malinky - 1 freq malinkies - 1 freq mailins - 1 freq mailing - 3 freq melons - 2 freq millans - 1 freq milns - 1 freq malinger - 1 freq maleness - 1 freq milling - 1 freq mwilliamsht - 9 freq |
MetaPhone code - MLNK malink - 2 freq mbbling - 1 freq malinky - 1 freq mailing - 3 freq milling - 1 freq |
MAILING |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.222635 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 - 0.361242 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 - 0.028473 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 - 0.037416 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 - 0.000902 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. |