| Levenshtein | Double Levenshtein | SoundEx | MetaPhone | Manually curated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| malcom (0) - 2 freq malcolm (1) - 33 freq maucom (1) - 1 freq walcom (1) - 3 freq walcum (2) - 31 freq 'malcolm (2) - 2 freq walcome (2) - 74 freq mascot (2) - 2 freq macm (2) - 1 freq mallum (2) - 1 freq falcon (2) - 4 freq malcolme (2) - 1 freq malcolms (2) - 1 freq marco (2) - 5 freq talcum (2) - 1 freq welcom (2) - 1 freq maggot (3) - 2 freq tallow (3) - 2 freq m'loon (3) - 4 freq magog (3) - 1 freq malt (3) - 19 freq yalloo (3) - 3 freq calloo (3) - 2 freq match (3) - 177 freq malty (3) - 6 freq |
malcom (0) - 2 freq maucom (2) - 1 freq walcom (2) - 3 freq malcolm (2) - 33 freq mallum (3) - 1 freq malcolme (3) - 1 freq talcum (3) - 1 freq macm (3) - 1 freq welcom (3) - 1 freq walcome (3) - 74 freq walcum (3) - 31 freq balcomie (4) - 1 freq mascot (4) - 2 freq malice (4) - 3 freq wilcome (4) - 4 freq mulch (4) - 2 freq melchi (4) - 2 freq falcon (4) - 4 freq welcum (4) - 10 freq marco (4) - 5 freq malcolms (4) - 1 freq welcome (4) - 168 freq 'malcolm (4) - 2 freq wylcome (4) - 2 freq maleen (5) - 1 freq |
SoundEx code - M425 moliganterin - 2 freq moleskins - 1 freq milkin - 26 freq malign - 3 freq mulkan - 1 freq milkman - 4 freq milkin' - 1 freq malcom - 2 freq malignant - 3 freq mellishon - 2 freq maillishon - 1 freq milkmeat - 1 freq malkyne - 10 freq malisons - 1 freq milkmen - 1 freq mollucans - 1 freq mulkin - 1 freq milligan - 4 freq milkman's - 1 freq milking - 1 freq mulsintoun - 33 freq mollachin - 1 freq molliganterin - 1 freq male-centric - 1 freq melgund - 1 freq mwilson - 1 freq malaysian - 1 freq meljomur - 6 freq milliejamieson - 1 freq melzmelz - 1 freq mulcywmtyw - 1 freq mylegend - 1 freq |
MetaPhone code - MLKM malcom - 2 freq |
MALCOM |
| Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.475846 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 - 0.829193 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 - 0.065712 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 - 0.042053 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 - 0.000942 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. |