| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| westward (0) - 1 freq westwards (1) - 1 freq eastward (2) - 2 freq weyward (2) - 1 freq westland (2) - 1 freq postwar (3) - 3 freq estuary (3) - 3 freq outward (3) - 2 freq vestiary (3) - 1 freq westlan (3) - 2 freq wastird (3) - 4 freq custard (3) - 15 freq bestiary (3) - 1 freq petard (3) - 1 freq atward (3) - 1 freq reward (3) - 47 freq westham (3) - 3 freq liftward (3) - 1 freq seward (3) - 2 freq edward (3) - 33 freq wayward (3) - 1 freq ootward (3) - 6 freq westport (3) - 3 freq westfold (3) - 1 freq wastland (3) - 2 freq |
westward (0) - 1 freq westwards (2) - 1 freq eastward (3) - 2 freq steward (4) - 2 freq wastird (4) - 4 freq westland (4) - 1 freq weyward (4) - 1 freq mustard (5) - 18 freq westburn (5) - 4 freq westport (5) - 3 freq westray (5) - 13 freq westfold (5) - 1 freq postcard (5) - 8 freq westwater (5) - 1 freq wester (5) - 6 freq bestford (5) - 1 freq eastwards (5) - 3 freq ootward (5) - 6 freq bastard (5) - 102 freq western (5) - 30 freq wastland (5) - 2 freq wayward (5) - 1 freq atward (5) - 1 freq custard (5) - 15 freq postwar (5) - 3 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 - WSTWRT westward - 1 freq |
WESTWARD |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.203880 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 - 0.387864 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 - 0.028706 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 - 0.037645 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 - 0.000907 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. |