Jaro–Winkler distance

Jaro-Winkler Distance is a way of measuring how much two words, phrases, or pieces of text are related. It uses math to calculate the “distance” between what you’re comparing to figure out how similar they are. It’s usually used when looking for similar words in a database or to match what you’re searching to what’s in the database. It’s like finding the closest match in a very big set of words, phrases, or pieces of text.