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metaphone

Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, an algorithm published in 1990 for indexing words by their English pronunciation. The algorithm produces variable length keys as its output, as opposed to Soundex’s fixed-length keys. Similar sounding words share the same keys.

metaphone(str)

returns string

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
str	string	Yes

Metaphone long words

This compound word is the longest word published with 79 letters according to the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records

Metaphone("Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän")

Expected Result: TNTM

Different words with the same metaphone

Metaphone("Truck")&"/"&Metaphone("Trek")

Expected Result: TRK/TRK

Metaphone of a word and then same word with prefix

Adding a word changes the whole metaphone

Metaphone("Trek")&"/"&Metaphone("Star Trek")

Expected Result: TRK/STRT

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