| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| merely (0) - 12 freq metely (1) - 1 freq mere (2) - 24 freq mervel (2) - 5 freq erey (2) - 1 freq seely (2) - 4 freq meself (2) - 2 freq eraly (2) - 1 freq mercy (2) - 94 freq jeely (2) - 46 freq femely (2) - 1 freq mesel (2) - 59 freq mesell (2) - 2 freq epely (2) - 1 freq verily (2) - 2 freq merrily (2) - 5 freq sorely (2) - 2 freq erly (2) - 3 freq barely (2) - 97 freq merest (2) - 6 freq eerily (2) - 1 freq mervelt (2) - 1 freq heresy (2) - 3 freq mervels (2) - 1 freq aerly (2) - 19 freq |
merely (0) - 12 freq mirly (2) - 1 freq metely (2) - 1 freq merle (2) - 5 freq meel (3) - 3 freq meanly (3) - 1 freq mereat (3) - 1 freq sirely (3) - 1 freq ferly (3) - 20 freq moral (3) - 88 freq merlle (3) - 1 freq marley (3) - 4 freq merble (3) - 2 freq mealy (3) - 5 freq surely (3) - 184 freq measly (3) - 1 freq mere' (3) - 1 freq mareel (3) - 3 freq murl (3) - 2 freq marl (3) - 1 freq mirl (3) - 1 freq sarely (3) - 1 freq muriel (3) - 5 freq mosely (3) - 2 freq merry (3) - 69 freq |
SoundEx code - M640 merrily - 5 freq moral - 88 freq 'moral - 1 freq mirl - 1 freq murl - 2 freq mareel - 3 freq maryhill - 3 freq merrilie - 1 freq muriel - 5 freq mural - 1 freq merely - 12 freq morale - 6 freq merle - 5 freq mirly - 1 freq morally - 3 freq marl - 1 freq mirlie - 1 freq mireille - 4 freq 'moral' - 1 freq marley - 4 freq marlowe - 1 freq €˜marley - 1 freq maryhull - 1 freq merlle - 1 freq murrel - 1 freq mayoral - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - MRL merrily - 5 freq moral - 88 freq 'moral - 1 freq mirl - 1 freq murl - 2 freq mareel - 3 freq merrilie - 1 freq muriel - 5 freq mural - 1 freq merely - 12 freq morale - 6 freq merle - 5 freq mirly - 1 freq morally - 3 freq marl - 1 freq mirlie - 1 freq mireille - 4 freq 'moral' - 1 freq marley - 4 freq €˜marley - 1 freq merlle - 1 freq murrel - 1 freq |
MERELY |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.186874 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 - 0.334759 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 - 0.027594 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 - 0.037170 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 - 0.000885 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. |