| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| watching (0) - 79 freq watchin (1) - 395 freq patching (1) - 1 freq watchin' (1) - 8 freq catching (1) - 8 freq matching (1) - 3 freq nathing (2) - 1 freq watchan (2) - 20 freq bitching (2) - 1 freq lauching (2) - 1 freq aathing (2) - 179 freq latchin (2) - 2 freq fitching (2) - 1 freq watchie (2) - 1 freq watchit (2) - 6 freq catchin' (2) - 2 freq matchin' (2) - 1 freq watchen (2) - 7 freq swatchin (2) - 1 freq athing (2) - 77 freq hitching (2) - 1 freq waatchin (2) - 24 freq waachin (2) - 1 freq patchin (2) - 3 freq marching (2) - 6 freq |
watching (0) - 79 freq watchin (2) - 395 freq matching (2) - 3 freq catching (2) - 8 freq watchin' (2) - 8 freq patching (2) - 1 freq waatchin (3) - 24 freq hitching (3) - 1 freq retching (3) - 1 freq watchen (3) - 7 freq switching (3) - 6 freq watchn (3) - 1 freq fetching (3) - 1 freq witchin (3) - 2 freq fitching (3) - 1 freq watchan (3) - 20 freq bitching (3) - 1 freq matchin (4) - 17 freq lauching (4) - 1 freq patchin' (4) - 1 freq catchin (4) - 55 freq washing (4) - 22 freq nathing (4) - 1 freq touching (4) - 7 freq weicheng (4) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - W325 watchin - 395 freq wide-wauken - 1 freq whitsuntid - 1 freq watson - 46 freq wadgin - 4 freq wad--gin - 1 freq whitesands - 1 freq whitsun - 1 freq watchan - 20 freq witch-hunteen - 1 freq watchin' - 8 freq watching - 79 freq watchen - 7 freq watchmaker - 2 freq wedgin - 1 freq waatchin - 24 freq watson's - 3 freq waatchan - 8 freq woodsman - 1 freq watchman - 1 freq witchin - 2 freq whit's-mine-is-mine - 1 freq whitsumivver - 1 freq wittgenstein - 38 freq wittgenstein's - 6 freq watkins - 12 freq whyt-waashin - 1 freq wide-kent - 1 freq whitsomiver - 1 freq wide-waukin - 1 freq waidgin - 1 freq watsons - 3 freq wdkenny - 1 freq watchn - 1 freq wdojnszo - 1 freq watsoncomedian - 2 freq wdcnem - 1 freq whotookmyname - 1 freq watchmen - 1 freq watchman-- - 1 freq whatsonds - 2 freq |
MetaPhone code - WXNK weicheng - 1 freq washing - 22 freq watching - 79 freq wishing - 7 freq |
WATCHING 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 - 0.299200 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 - 0.617308 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 - 0.080870 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 - 0.038605 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 - 0.000961 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. |