| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pedals (0) - 3 freq medals (1) - 15 freq pedal (1) - 6 freq peals (1) - 2 freq petals (1) - 22 freq penal (2) - 5 freq dedaws (2) - 1 freq redars (2) - 1 freq decals (2) - 1 freq meals (2) - 39 freq seals (2) - 22 freq pedant (2) - 3 freq devals (2) - 1 freq perils (2) - 2 freq peats (2) - 49 freq pedlars (2) - 1 freq beals (2) - 1 freq pals (2) - 365 freq metals (2) - 5 freq medials (2) - 1 freq ledars (2) - 1 freq eedols (2) - 1 freq deals (2) - 18 freq peas (2) - 54 freq peaks (2) - 13 freq |
pedals (0) - 3 freq medals (2) - 15 freq peals (2) - 2 freq petals (2) - 22 freq pedal (2) - 6 freq pendils (3) - 1 freq gydals (3) - 1 freq dedalus (3) - 1 freq pearls (3) - 17 freq eedols (3) - 1 freq deals (3) - 18 freq penels (3) - 7 freq redials (3) - 1 freq phials (3) - 1 freq medials (3) - 1 freq peels (3) - 30 freq peills (3) - 1 freq modals (3) - 4 freq perils (3) - 2 freq pedlars (3) - 1 freq pals (3) - 365 freq pails (4) - 14 freq deils (4) - 35 freq daedalus (4) - 27 freq pods (4) - 7 freq |
SoundEx code - P342 petals - 22 freq padlock - 5 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq padlocks - 1 freq potless - 1 freq pitlochory - 1 freq pathologically - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq pitlochry - 7 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq pot-holes - 1 freq pathologist - 1 freq pathological - 1 freq paddles - 1 freq potlicht - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq padlocks - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PTLS petals - 22 freq puddles - 12 freq podlie's - 1 freq potless - 1 freq peitiless - 2 freq paiddles - 2 freq pitiless - 1 freq peetiless - 1 freq piddles - 4 freq pedals - 3 freq paddles - 1 freq ptlz - 1 freq |
PEDALS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.295767 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 - 0.705361 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 - 0.063707 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 - 0.051360 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 - 0.000948 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. |