| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| needless (0) - 16 freq deedless (1) - 1 freq heedless (1) - 6 freq needles (1) - 17 freq needle's (1) - 4 freq teenless (2) - 1 freq neediness (2) - 1 freq headless (2) - 1 freq needler (2) - 2 freq endless (2) - 52 freq needle (2) - 39 freq nebless (2) - 1 freq fendless (2) - 1 freq weerless (2) - 2 freq seemless (2) - 1 freq neediest (2) - 1 freq peerless (2) - 1 freq heidless (2) - 12 freq reekless (2) - 1 freq useless (3) - 36 freq needet (3) - 2 freq reevles (3) - 1 freq daeless (3) - 4 freq godless (3) - 12 freq teetles (3) - 1 freq |
needless (0) - 16 freq endless (2) - 52 freq needles (2) - 17 freq needle's (2) - 4 freq heedless (2) - 6 freq deedless (2) - 1 freq fendless (3) - 1 freq heidless (3) - 12 freq endliss (3) - 1 freq nebless (3) - 1 freq headless (3) - 1 freq neediness (3) - 1 freq nameless (4) - 5 freq vyndless (4) - 2 freq handless (4) - 3 freq wyndless (4) - 1 freq mindless (4) - 3 freq deualess (4) - 1 freq godless (4) - 12 freq enless (4) - 12 freq guidless (4) - 3 freq daeless (4) - 4 freq seemless (4) - 1 freq neediest (4) - 1 freq teenless (4) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - N342 needles - 17 freq needless - 16 freq nettles - 23 freq noodles - 7 freq needle's - 4 freq natalia's - 1 freq natheless - 2 freq nate-lik - 1 freq nettils - 1 freq nae-dialectial - 1 freq naetheless - 3 freq nataliejsteele - 1 freq nae-the-like-o-us - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - NTLS needles - 17 freq needless - 16 freq wyndless - 1 freq nettles - 23 freq noodles - 7 freq needle's - 4 freq natalia's - 1 freq knotless - 3 freq nettils - 1 freq |
NEEDLESS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.198915 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 - 0.369109 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 - 0.028915 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 - 0.039630 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 - 0.000945 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. |