| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penal (0) - 5 freq petal (1) - 11 freq penel (1) - 106 freq peal (1) - 3 freq pedal (1) - 6 freq penah (1) - 1 freq pepil (2) - 2 freq penn (2) - 4 freq dental (2) - 7 freq pence (2) - 64 freq mental (2) - 125 freq zeal (2) - 2 freq pencil (2) - 42 freq feal (2) - 1 freq pensel (2) - 1 freq pennan (2) - 2 freq pents (2) - 5 freq nepal (2) - 1 freq feral (2) - 6 freq bengal (2) - 2 freq enml (2) - 1 freq pense (2) - 3 freq pen (2) - 119 freq penels (2) - 7 freq poal (2) - 1 freq |
penal (0) - 5 freq penel (1) - 106 freq panoal (2) - 1 freq petal (2) - 11 freq panel (2) - 29 freq epinal (2) - 1 freq penah (2) - 1 freq peal (2) - 3 freq pedal (2) - 6 freq penis (3) - 1 freq pened (3) - 1 freq final (3) - 166 freq penud (3) - 1 freq pearl (3) - 8 freq penim (3) - 1 freq donal (3) - 7 freq peel (3) - 41 freq tonal (3) - 8 freq peyan (3) - 1 freq pell (3) - 4 freq phial (3) - 1 freq nal (3) - 1 freq spinal (3) - 3 freq neal (3) - 1 freq pewl (3) - 3 freq |
SoundEx code - P540 pummel - 4 freq panel - 29 freq penal - 5 freq pamela - 1 freq phanuel - 2 freq pomleywee - 1 freq penel - 106 freq panoal - 1 freq pommel - 1 freq poneil - 3 freq pennywell - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PNL panel - 29 freq penal - 5 freq penel - 106 freq panoal - 1 freq poneil - 3 freq |
PENAL |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.413294 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 - 0.883161 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 - 0.027839 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 - 0.086184 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 - 0.000887 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. |