| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| merle (0) - 5 freq merlle (1) - 1 freq merse (1) - 4 freq mele (1) - 1 freq merge (1) - 4 freq mere (1) - 24 freq merde (1) - 1 freq merles (1) - 1 freq erle (1) - 4 freq merble (1) - 2 freq meyle (1) - 1 freq meeee (2) - 1 freq berne (2) - 1 freq mirly (2) - 1 freq marley (2) - 4 freq mells (2) - 10 freq helle (2) - 6 freq male (2) - 59 freq fele (2) - 3 freq gerse (2) - 2 freq lerge (2) - 1 freq kercle (2) - 3 freq mole (2) - 11 freq ferly (2) - 20 freq merged (2) - 2 freq |
merle (0) - 5 freq marley (2) - 4 freq mirly (2) - 1 freq mirl (2) - 1 freq mirlie (2) - 1 freq murl (2) - 2 freq morale (2) - 6 freq marl (2) - 1 freq meyle (2) - 1 freq merely (2) - 12 freq merse (2) - 4 freq mele (2) - 1 freq merge (2) - 4 freq merble (2) - 2 freq mere (2) - 24 freq merlle (2) - 1 freq merles (2) - 1 freq merde (2) - 1 freq erle (2) - 4 freq maree (3) - 1 freq mire (3) - 14 freq meal (3) - 130 freq merrie (3) - 7 freq mercy (3) - 94 freq ferlie (3) - 96 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 |
MERLE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.397325 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 - 0.695064 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 - 0.047344 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 - 0.070079 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 - 0.006623 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. |