| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| owler (0) - 5 freq ouler (1) - 8 freq ower (1) - 6285 freq rowler (1) - 2 freq owner (1) - 28 freq owlder (1) - 14 freq fowler (1) - 2 freq owder (1) - 1 freq owver (1) - 1 freq wler (1) - 1 freq ow'er (1) - 1 freq cler (2) - 1 freq owls (2) - 3 freq tyler (2) - 15 freq ogle (2) - 2 freq owen (2) - 6 freq owers (2) - 2 freq orrer (2) - 1 freq yowder (2) - 1 freq fower (2) - 697 freq voller (2) - 2 freq pler (2) - 1 freq o'er (2) - 76 freq owse (2) - 5 freq cowzer (2) - 1 freq |
owler (0) - 5 freq wler (1) - 1 freq owder (2) - 1 freq owver (2) - 1 freq ow'er (2) - 1 freq fowler (2) - 2 freq wiler (2) - 1 freq ouler (2) - 8 freq owlder (2) - 14 freq ower (2) - 6285 freq owner (2) - 28 freq rowler (2) - 2 freq yower (3) - 3 freq oilier (3) - 1 freq houler (3) - 1 freq aller (3) - 2 freq ewer (3) - 2 freq byler (3) - 3 freq owir (3) - 7 freq iwver (3) - 1 freq ler (3) - 1 freq hooler (3) - 1 freq owcr (3) - 1 freq waer (3) - 2 freq owider (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - O460 owler - 5 freq ouler - 8 freq o'leary - 1 freq oilier - 1 freq olr - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - OLR owler - 5 freq ouler - 8 freq o'leary - 1 freq oilier - 1 freq olr - 2 freq |
OWLER |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.178112 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 - 0.333990 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 - 0.028546 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 - 0.038198 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 - 0.000934 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. |