Explore Metaphone through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Metaphone in a sentence
Metaphone meaning
A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
Using Metaphone
- The main meaning on this page is: A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
- In the example corpus, metaphone often appears in combinations such as: original metaphone, double metaphone, metaphone algorithm.
Context around Metaphone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Metaphone
- In this selection, "metaphone" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, original, double, encode, algorithm, contained and main stand out and add context to how "metaphone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the metaphone algorithms that and and original metaphone were superseded. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "metaphone" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with metaphone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Words that have the same or similar Metaphone become possible alternative spellings. (12 words)
It makes a number of fundamental design improvements over the original Metaphone algorithm. (13 words)
The Metaphone algorithm, for example, can take an incorrectly spelled word and create a code. (15 words)
Original Metaphone contained many errors and was superseded by Double Metaphone, and in turn Double Metaphone and original Metaphone were superseded by Metaphone 3, which corrects thousands of miscodings that will be produced by the first two versions. (38 words)
Developers can also now set switches in code to cause the algorithm to encode Metaphone keys 1) taking non-initial vowels into account, as well as 2) encoding voiced and unvoiced consonants differently. (33 words)
It should be noted, however, that this table does not constitute a complete description of the original Metaphone algorithm, and the algorithm cannot be coded correctly from it. (28 words)
Example sentences (9)
Original Metaphone contained many errors and was superseded by Double Metaphone, and in turn Double Metaphone and original Metaphone were superseded by Metaphone 3, which corrects thousands of miscodings that will be produced by the first two versions.
Double Metaphone main The Double Metaphone phonetic encoding algorithm is the second generation of this algorithm.
Common misconceptions There are a couple of misconceptions about the Metaphone algorithms that should be addressed.
Developers can also now set switches in code to cause the algorithm to encode Metaphone keys 1) taking non-initial vowels into account, as well as 2) encoding voiced and unvoiced consonants differently.
It makes a number of fundamental design improvements over the original Metaphone algorithm.
It should be noted, however, that this table does not constitute a complete description of the original Metaphone algorithm, and the algorithm cannot be coded correctly from it.
Metaphone 3 A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips.
The Metaphone algorithm, for example, can take an incorrectly spelled word and create a code.
Words that have the same or similar Metaphone become possible alternative spellings.
Common combinations with metaphone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: