| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wastern (0) - 5 freq wasters (1) - 6 freq eastern (1) - 25 freq waster (1) - 13 freq bastern (1) - 2 freq wastert (1) - 1 freq western (1) - 30 freq hasten (2) - 1 freq wastan (2) - 1 freq watterin (2) - 12 freq casters (2) - 2 freq wattery (2) - 16 freq watters (2) - 86 freq washeen (2) - 11 freq waiters (2) - 8 freq waste't (2) - 1 freq tasters (2) - 1 freq easterd (2) - 1 freq watter' (2) - 2 freq waterin (2) - 7 freq walterw (2) - 1 freq washers (2) - 1 freq wastren (2) - 7 freq wateren (2) - 2 freq bastert (2) - 9 freq |
wastern (0) - 5 freq western (1) - 30 freq wastrin (2) - 1 freq wastert (2) - 1 freq wastren (2) - 7 freq westerne (2) - 1 freq eastern (2) - 25 freq wasters (2) - 6 freq bastern (2) - 2 freq waster (2) - 13 freq walterin (3) - 3 freq gestern (3) - 1 freq wastlin (3) - 1 freq aistern (3) - 2 freq westren (3) - 4 freq stern (3) - 46 freq bastarn (3) - 16 freq wastin (3) - 32 freq waister (3) - 1 freq wastird (3) - 4 freq wastry (3) - 2 freq westerns (3) - 1 freq cistern (3) - 6 freq wester (3) - 6 freq wasterfu (3) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - W236 waster - 13 freq western - 30 freq westray - 13 freq westerly - 2 freq westerns - 1 freq wastren - 7 freq wastrals - 1 freq wasters - 6 freq westernes - 1 freq wastrin - 1 freq westerbister - 1 freq wester - 6 freq wastrel - 1 freq westward - 1 freq wastries - 1 freq wastry - 2 freq wastern - 5 freq westren - 4 freq wastert - 1 freq westrobothnian - 1 freq wast-owre - 1 freq wastird - 4 freq waister - 1 freq wasterly - 2 freq wastrie - 3 freq westerne - 1 freq wastrenisation - 1 freq westerha - 1 freq wechtier - 1 freq wasterfu - 1 freq weestoriestheatre - 1 freq westerloch - 1 freq wasterners - 1 freq westwards - 1 freq weeextrabonus - 1 freq westerners - 1 freq westernau - 1 freq wooster - 1 freq wstewartgk - 19 freq |
MetaPhone code - WSTRN western - 30 freq wastren - 7 freq wastrin - 1 freq wastern - 5 freq westren - 4 freq westerne - 1 freq westernau - 1 freq |
WASTERN |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.190252 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 - 0.406908 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 - 0.034952 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 - 0.037444 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 - 0.000911 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. |