| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| midwife (0) - 5 freq madwife (1) - 1 freq mid-wife (1) - 5 freq mid-life (2) - 1 freq midriff (2) - 2 freq deidwife (2) - 1 freq midgie (2) - 27 freq midwives (2) - 1 freq sadwife (2) - 1 freq midwik (2) - 1 freq guidwife (2) - 41 freq middie (2) - 7 freq i'wife (2) - 2 freq midrit (3) - 1 freq didie (3) - 5 freq gleidwife (3) - 1 freq i'wifie (3) - 1 freq biddie (3) - 1 freq hidie (3) - 1 freq mirlie (3) - 1 freq fishwife (3) - 2 freq midi (3) - 1 freq 'wife (3) - 1 freq i'wie (3) - 10 freq midweek (3) - 3 freq |
midwife (0) - 5 freq madwife (1) - 1 freq mid-wife (2) - 5 freq sadwife (3) - 1 freq midwik (3) - 1 freq guidwife (3) - 41 freq deidwife (3) - 1 freq guidwyfe (4) - 24 freq gudewife (4) - 1 freq i'wife (4) - 2 freq auldwife (4) - 1 freq middie (4) - 7 freq midweek (4) - 3 freq midriff (4) - 2 freq mid-life (4) - 1 freq midwives (4) - 1 freq midgie (4) - 27 freq guid-wife (5) - 5 freq midse (5) - 1 freq maddie (5) - 3 freq middil (5) - 3 freq meidie (5) - 1 freq midge (5) - 10 freq wife (5) - 818 freq kailwife (5) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - M310 moothfu - 6 freq moothfae - 10 freq mid-wife - 5 freq made-up - 6 freq midwife - 5 freq mouthfu - 6 freq madwife - 1 freq moothfoo - 1 freq meatbaw - 4 freq motif - 1 freq meetup - 2 freq mtv - 2 freq mtp - 1 freq mothbaw - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - MTWF mid-wife - 5 freq midwife - 5 freq madwife - 1 freq |
MIDWIFE |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.272652 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 - 0.624248 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 - 0.029680 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 - 0.076939 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 - 0.000935 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. |