| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| petrol-soaked (0) - 1 freq petrol-tanker (4) - 3 freq pear-shaped (5) - 2 freq stoor-sooker (6) - 1 freq patronised (6) - 1 freq tree-shaped (6) - 1 freq hert-shaped (6) - 1 freq well-stocked (6) - 1 freq rug-sooked (6) - 1 freq percolated (6) - 1 freq heart-shaped (6) - 1 freq prolonged (6) - 1 freq provoked (6) - 4 freq bluid-soaked (6) - 1 freq persuaded (6) - 8 freq pre-cooked (6) - 1 freq perswaad (7) - 1 freq weel-waled (7) - 1 freq weel-wared (7) - 2 freq reprocessed (7) - 1 freq stoor-sookers (7) - 1 freq weel-loved (7) - 1 freq retreaded (7) - 1 freq persisted (7) - 5 freq trollope (7) - 2 freq |
petrol-soaked (0) - 1 freq petrol-tanker (7) - 3 freq rug-sooked (9) - 1 freq patronised (9) - 1 freq pre-cooked (9) - 1 freq pear-shaped (9) - 2 freq stoor-sooker (9) - 1 freq stour-souker (10) - 1 freq petrels (10) - 2 freq tree-shaped (10) - 1 freq bluid-soaked (10) - 1 freq hert-skaud (10) - 1 freq persuaded (10) - 8 freq neutralised (10) - 1 freq paralysed (10) - 13 freq patrols (10) - 3 freq prolonged (10) - 1 freq provoked (10) - 4 freq promised (11) - 76 freq heirt-scaud (11) - 1 freq petalled (11) - 1 freq proposed (11) - 8 freq plei-sured (11) - 1 freq persued (11) - 1 freq perswayd (11) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - P364 petrol-soaked - 1 freq petrol - 36 freq patrollin - 2 freq pitril - 7 freq powderhall - 2 freq patrol - 7 freq pettrol - 1 freq patrols - 3 freq peter'll - 1 freq petrol-tanker - 3 freq peter-uill - 1 freq patrolling - 1 freq petroleum - 1 freq peteralanross - 1 freq petrel - 3 freq petrels - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - PTRLSKT petrol-soaked - 1 freq |
PETROL-SOAKED |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.202867 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 - 0.386080 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 - 0.030879 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 - 0.045610 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 - 0.001141 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. |