fastest way to compare a string with a array of strings

Question

I have a array, let's say:

   var myArray = ["ibira", "garmin", "hide", "park", "parque", "corrida", "trote", "personal", "sports", "esportes", "health", "saúde", "academia"];
   var myString = "I went to the park with my garmin watch";

What is the fast way to check if my String has any of the words in myArray?

Bellow is my code, but im not sure if it would be the best way to go...

   function score(arKeywords, frase) {
      if (frase == undefined) {
        return 0;
      } else {
          var indice = 0;
          var indArray = arKeywords.length;
          var sentencaMin = frase.toLowerCase();
          for (i = 0; i < indArray; i++) {
              if (sentencaMin.search(arKeywords[i]) > 0) { indice++; }
          }
          return indice;
      }
  }

Please help me anyone. That function will run in A LOT of strings!

Thank you all :)

Answer 1

Based on this sentence, from the question:

What is [a] way to check if my String has any of the words in myArray?

(Emphasis mine.)

I'd suggest the following, which will test if "some" of the words in the supplied string are present in the supplied array. This – theoretically – stops comparing once there is a match of any of the words from the string present in the array:

var myArray = ["ibira", "garmin", "hide", "park", "parque", "corrida", "trote", "personal", "sports", "esportes", "health", "saúde", "academia"],
  myString = "I went to the park with my garmin watch";

function anyInArray(needles, haystack) {

  // we split the supplied string ("needles") into words by splitting
  // the string at the occurrence of a word-boundary ('\b') followed
  // one or more ('+') occurrences of white-space ('\s') followed by
  // another word-boundary:
  return needles.split(/\b\s+\b/)
    // we then use Array.prototype.some() to work on the array of
    // words, to assess whether any/some of the words ('needle') 
    // - using an Arrow function - are present in the supplied
    // array ('haystack'), in which case Array.prototype.indexOf()
    // would return the index of the found-word, or -1 if that word
    // is not found:
    .some(needle => haystack.indexOf(needle) > -1);
    // at which point we return the Boolean, true if some of the
    // words were found, false if none of the words were found.
}

console.log(anyInArray(myString, myArray));

var myArray = ["ibira", "garmin", "hide", "park", "parque", "corrida", "trote", "personal", "sports", "esportes", "health", "saúde", "academia"],
  myString = "I went to the park with my garmin watch";

function anyInArray(needles, haystack) {
  return needles.split(/\b\s+\b/).some(needle => haystack.indexOf(needle) > -1);
}

console.log(anyInArray(myString, myArray));

JS Fiddle demo.

References:

• Array.prototype.indexOf().
• Array.prototype.some().
• Arrow functions.
• Guide to JavaScript Regular Expressions (MDN).
• String.prototype.split().