| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whalers (0) - 8 freq whaler (1) - 1 freq whales (1) - 15 freq waters (2) - 18 freq whaurs (2) - 9 freq whales' (2) - 1 freq wagers (2) - 1 freq while's (2) - 4 freq whaes (2) - 27 freq phasers (2) - 1 freq weavers (2) - 9 freq waders (2) - 4 freq 'havers (2) - 1 freq whalps (2) - 3 freq shales (2) - 1 freq havers (2) - 35 freq wavers (2) - 1 freq dealers (2) - 10 freq haters (2) - 1 freq wheelers (2) - 1 freq hales (2) - 1 freq whars (2) - 3 freq shakers (2) - 2 freq chalmers (2) - 15 freq chalets (2) - 1 freq |
whalers (0) - 8 freq wheelers (2) - 1 freq whales (2) - 15 freq whaler (2) - 1 freq whars (3) - 3 freq whalps (3) - 3 freq while's (3) - 4 freq whiles (3) - 479 freq whaurs (3) - 9 freq whyles (3) - 85 freq wheres (4) - 9 freq whelks (4) - 14 freq wheekers (4) - 1 freq whauras (4) - 5 freq shalders (4) - 6 freq whale (4) - 32 freq whalp's (4) - 1 freq waaters (4) - 4 freq whereas (4) - 8 freq whores (4) - 2 freq wheels (4) - 83 freq whalsay (4) - 1 freq wheeler (4) - 4 freq shoulers (4) - 6 freq whurs (4) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - W462 walrus - 9 freq weel-rigged - 1 freq weel-respected - 1 freq whalers - 8 freq wheelers - 1 freq well-respected - 1 freq weill-wrocht - 2 freq weel-wrocht - 3 freq waalruses - 1 freq weel-regairdit - 2 freq weel-respectit - 1 freq weel-wirked - 1 freq woolwork - 2 freq wlrqslwr - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - WLRS walrus - 9 freq whalers - 8 freq wheelers - 1 freq |
WHALERS |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.181853 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 - 0.354802 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 - 0.028395 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 - 0.039315 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 - 0.000968 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. |