| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| maple (0) - 6 freq mable (1) - 2 freq aple (1) - 2 freq maples (1) - 1 freq marple (1) - 2 freq male (1) - 59 freq saule (2) - 2 freq mailed (2) - 2 freq manse (2) - 19 freq gape (2) - 4 freq marled (2) - 2 freq marlex (2) - 1 freq lapse (2) - 2 freq maave (2) - 4 freq dapple (2) - 2 freq yable (2) - 7 freq maalie (2) - 7 freq madge (2) - 9 freq staple (2) - 6 freq make (2) - 649 freq aiple (2) - 5 freq marl (2) - 1 freq mle (2) - 1 freq papple (2) - 1 freq mxpie (2) - 1 freq |
maple (0) - 6 freq ample (2) - 9 freq mable (2) - 2 freq marple (2) - 2 freq male (2) - 59 freq maples (2) - 1 freq aple (2) - 2 freq mappey (3) - 2 freq maipil (3) - 1 freq meyle (3) - 1 freq apple (3) - 30 freq mail (3) - 54 freq mille (3) - 1 freq pale (3) - 88 freq mael (3) - 2 freq mal (3) - 2 freq mall (3) - 4 freq mile (3) - 278 freq mule (3) - 4 freq maol (3) - 1 freq sample (3) - 20 freq merle (3) - 5 freq mallae (3) - 4 freq mappa (3) - 1 freq mailie (3) - 3 freq |
SoundEx code - M140 mabel - 91 freq mobile - 57 freq maple - 6 freq maybole - 1 freq muffle - 4 freq movilla - 3 freq mayfly - 1 freq mobil - 1 freq maipil - 1 freq mbl - 1 freq mable - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - MPL maple - 6 freq maipil - 1 freq |
MAPLE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.177788 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 - 0.340548 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 - 0.027998 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 - 0.041396 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 - 0.000927 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. |