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Metaphone

Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation. 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…

Double Metaphone, Procedure & Metaphone of other languages

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Double Metaphone

C/C++ Users JournalEnglishSlavicGermanicCeltic
10 related topics

Procedure

ConsonantThASCIIShCh
8 related topics

Metaphone of other languages

Indo-EuropeanBrazilian PortugueseVárzea Paulista
3 related topics

Metaphone 3

PL/SQL
1 related topics

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Procedure

Double Metaphone

Metaphone 3

Metaphone of other languages

Metaphone algorithms for other languages

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Metaphone

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples93
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

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Metaphone

Top relations

related to Procedure · 28
Metaphone → AE, AEIOU, ASCII, CH, CK, Drop, English, GE, GG, GI, GN, GY, IA, If, IO, KN, KS, NED, Original Metaphone, Otherwise
related to Metaphone 3 · 21
Metaphone → Americans, Developers, Double Metaphone, English, German, It, Java, Lawrence Philips, March, October, OpenRefine, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Spanish, The, The Metaphone3 Java, This
related to Double Metaphone · 13
Metaphone → C/C, Double, For, It, Its, June, Schmidt, SM0, Smith, SMT, The Double Metaphone, Users Journal, XMT
related to Metaphone algorithms for other languages · 12
Metaphone → AmharicRussian Metaphone, BanglaDouble Metaphone, Brazilian Portuguese, Double Metaphone, Java, Java Metaphone, JavaScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, PythonDouble Metaphone, Ruby, Spanish Metaphone
related to Metaphone of other languages · 8
Metaphone → Brazil, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Indo-European, On, Perhaps, Soundex, Várzea Paulista
related to External links · 7
Metaphone → Algorithm, By Lawrence Phillips, Dr Dobb's, June, Original, The Double Metaphone Search, Wayback Machine
related to Common misconceptions · 3
Metaphone → All, The, There
is a · 1
Metaphone → phonetic algorithm

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Important terminology

transforms english algorithm words double encoding drop followed original version names vowels code first number philips consonant 'x' vowel phonetic

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Metaphoneis aphonetic algorithm0.90text
Metaphonerelated to Common misconceptionsThere0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Common misconceptionsThe0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Common misconceptionsAll0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneThe Double Metaphone0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneIts0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneJune0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneC/C0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneUsers Journal0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneIt0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneDouble0.60section
Metaphonerelated to Double MetaphoneFor0.60section

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