| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| watchful (0) - 2 freq watchfu (1) - 4 freq lauchful (2) - 2 freq watchie (3) - 1 freq catch-up (3) - 3 freq watchan (3) - 20 freq watchmen (3) - 1 freq watch't (3) - 2 freq watchees (3) - 1 freq fateful (3) - 3 freq hateful (3) - 4 freq faithful (3) - 18 freq witchell (3) - 1 freq watched (3) - 259 freq watchen (3) - 7 freq watches (3) - 29 freq satchel (3) - 8 freq watchin (3) - 395 freq watcher (3) - 1 freq wishful (3) - 1 freq patch'll (3) - 1 freq watching (3) - 79 freq watchn (3) - 1 freq watcht (3) - 8 freq wasteful (3) - 1 freq |
watchful (0) - 2 freq watchfu (2) - 4 freq lauchful (4) - 2 freq witchell (4) - 1 freq watching (5) - 79 freq watchn (5) - 1 freq watcher (5) - 1 freq watcht (5) - 8 freq wishful (5) - 1 freq watchers (5) - 11 freq wauchil (5) - 1 freq weetchil (5) - 4 freq watchin' (5) - 8 freq watchman (5) - 1 freq watchin (5) - 395 freq watchit (5) - 6 freq watch (5) - 675 freq watch't (5) - 2 freq watchan (5) - 20 freq watchie (5) - 1 freq satchel (5) - 8 freq watchees (5) - 1 freq watchmen (5) - 1 freq watched (5) - 259 freq watchen (5) - 7 freq |
SoundEx code - W321 wotship - 1 freq widespread - 6 freq whatsoiver - 1 freq whatsappd - 1 freq whitsoever - 3 freq watchfu - 4 freq whatsapp - 9 freq whatsoever - 3 freq whitsaivver - 1 freq whitsaeever - 2 freq whitsoivver - 1 freq witchypoo - 1 freq watchful - 2 freq whitespots - 1 freq widespreid - 4 freq witch-bricht - 1 freq wades-bridge - 1 freq wheat-shaef - 2 freq whitsaeivver - 1 freq widespried - 1 freq whitsup - 1 freq wtqcbp - 1 freq witchiepoo - 1 freq woodwosehapa - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - WXFL wishful - 1 freq watchful - 2 freq |
WATCHFUL watch - 675 freq watchin - 395 freq watched - 259 freq watching - 79 freq watches - 29 freq watchan - 20 freq watcher - 1 freq watchers - 11 freq watcht - 8 freq watchin' - 8 freq watchit - 6 freq watchful - 2 freq watch-too'ers - 1 freq |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.279458 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 - 0.638638 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 - 0.038162 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 - 0.052999 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 - 0.001143 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. |