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

This function requires Lucee.  Not supported on Adobe ColdFusion, etc.
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See Also:   soundex

Argument Reference

str string
Required

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Examples
Sample code invoking the metaphone function

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

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

Expected Result: TRK/TRK

Adding a word changes the whole metaphone

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

Expected Result: TRK/STRT

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