| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| melchers (0) - 1 freq mulches (2) - 3 freq belches (2) - 1 freq merches (2) - 3 freq teachers (2) - 227 freq munchers (2) - 3 freq techers (2) - 1 freq kelters (3) - 1 freq helpers (3) - 12 freq reaches (3) - 24 freq marches (3) - 16 freq memmers (3) - 41 freq lecters (3) - 1 freq machars (3) - 4 freq menchies (3) - 1 freq lurchers (3) - 1 freq pelters (3) - 9 freq melter (3) - 1 freq mercies (3) - 3 freq wenches (3) - 2 freq watchers (3) - 11 freq beaches (3) - 12 freq ulcers (3) - 1 freq eithers (3) - 1 freq melchi (3) - 2 freq |
melchers (0) - 1 freq mulches (3) - 3 freq munchers (3) - 3 freq melchior (4) - 1 freq machars (4) - 4 freq mairchers (4) - 4 freq leuchars (4) - 1 freq teachers (4) - 227 freq merches (4) - 3 freq belches (4) - 1 freq techers (4) - 1 freq matches (5) - 41 freq teechurs (5) - 3 freq muckers (5) - 4 freq catchers (5) - 1 freq lecher (5) - 1 freq poachers (5) - 4 freq taichers (5) - 2 freq lethers (5) - 1 freq meelers (5) - 1 freq teichars (5) - 1 freq murthers (5) - 3 freq merchans (5) - 4 freq mackers (5) - 1 freq moocher (5) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - M426 malgrati - 2 freq malagruized - 1 freq malagaroused - 1 freq malagarousin - 1 freq malagaroose - 1 freq mulligrumphin - 1 freq malagrugous-lookin - 1 freq malagrugrous - 3 freq mulligrups - 1 freq melchers - 1 freq melchior - 1 freq myl-gruel - 1 freq mulcaire - 4 freq milgruel - 1 freq milkcairt - 1 freq malagrugous - 1 freq malagrugous-lik - 1 freq malagroused - 1 freq 'mouligrabber' - 1 freq malcware - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - MLXRS melchers - 1 freq |
MELCHERS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.230616 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 - 0.356578 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 - 0.027659 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 - 0.041213 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 - 0.001100 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. |