| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| playfully (0) - 4 freq prayfully (1) - 6 freq lawfully (2) - 3 freq playful (2) - 5 freq playbills (3) - 1 freq peacefully (3) - 4 freq leafully (3) - 1 freq pitifully (3) - 1 freq manfully (3) - 1 freq prayerfully (3) - 4 freq prayeefully (3) - 1 freq painfully (3) - 11 freq joyfully (3) - 1 freq gleefully (3) - 6 freq waefully (3) - 4 freq awfully (3) - 12 freq fearfully (3) - 3 freq playable (4) - 4 freq skilfully (4) - 1 freq unlaufull (4) - 1 freq carefully (4) - 40 freq pally (4) - 12 freq aafilly (4) - 1 freq mayfly (4) - 1 freq acyully (4) - 1 freq |
playfully (0) - 4 freq prayfully (2) - 6 freq playful (3) - 5 freq prayeefully (4) - 1 freq gleefully (4) - 6 freq painfully (4) - 11 freq pitifully (4) - 1 freq lawfully (4) - 3 freq peacefully (4) - 4 freq leafully (4) - 1 freq fearfully (5) - 3 freq peetifully (5) - 2 freq wilfully (5) - 1 freq awfully (5) - 12 freq plaefil (5) - 1 freq unlaufull (5) - 1 freq waefully (5) - 4 freq manfully (5) - 1 freq playbills (5) - 1 freq joyfully (5) - 1 freq prayerfully (5) - 4 freq tuinfully (6) - 1 freq ruefully (6) - 3 freq playfair (6) - 20 freq payroll (6) - 2 freq |
SoundEx code - P414 playbills - 1 freq plip-plop - 1 freq playful - 5 freq pale-pale - 1 freq playfully - 4 freq plaefil - 1 freq philflanagan - 2 freq philippullman - 1 freq paulpaul - 2 freq playable - 4 freq philipwhale - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - PLFL playful - 5 freq plughole - 2 freq playfully - 4 freq plaefil - 1 freq |
PLAYFULLY |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.182189 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 - 0.338017 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 - 0.027518 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 - 0.037899 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 - 0.001009 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. |