soundex in English
noun
1
a phonetic coding system intended to suppress spelling variations, used especially to encode surnames for the linkage of medical and other records.
The Soundex system used by the U.S. government failed to consider this nuance when checking his documentation.
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1. 30 A spell check application based on Soundex would not, therefore, offer lamb as a suggested correction for the misspelling lam.
2. While both Soundex and Metaphone algorithms solve phonetic fuzzy matching very well, no spell checking application is complete without typo correction.
3. There are 7 consonant(s) and 4 vowel(s) in Brian Barbre.Its characters by alphabetic order: B, B, a, a, b, e, i, n, r, r, r.Its Soundex Index is B651, and Metaphone value is BRNBRBR."Brian Barbre" is a short name.Writing in different systems