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Exact

PREFIX

Searches for names starting with 'ALE' and 'RAMIRE'

Phonetic

Soundex matches names that sound like 'ALEX RAMIREZ'

Phonetic

DM finds names that sound like 'ALEX RAMIREZ' (Slavic/Germanic variants)

Fuzzy

Levenshtein allows up to 2 edits from 'ALE RAMIREZ'

Fuzzy

Trigram ranks by character overlap with 'ALEX RAMIREZ'

Combo

Soundex finds broad matches, Levenshtein narrows to typos

Combo

DM + Levenshtein: better for Slavic/Germanic names