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Alternative
to Soundex
Caverphone Algorithm
- Remove spaces, hyphens and apostrophes.
- 2 is being used as a temporary placeholder
If the word starts with cough make it cou2f
rough --> rou2f
tough -->tou2f
enough -->enou2f
gn -->2n
mb -->m2
- Replace in word:
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Transformation |
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cq
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2q
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ce
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se
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cy
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sy
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tch
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2ch
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c
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k
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q
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k
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x
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k
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v
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f
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dg
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2g
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tio
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sio
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tia
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sia
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ph
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fh
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b
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p
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sh
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s2
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z
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s
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initial vowel
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A
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a vowel
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3
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gh
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22 (exception)
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g
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k
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groups of the letter
s
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S
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groups of the letter
p
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P
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groups of the letter
k
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K
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groups of the letter
f
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F
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groups of the letter
m
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M
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groups of the letter
n
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N
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w3
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W
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Metaphone
Double
Metaphone
Caverphone
Q-Gram
NYSIIS
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