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Metaphone

phonetic algorithm, published by L. Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation
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Metaphone

Summary

Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm[1]. Metaphone draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (phonetic_algorithm category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Metaphone's instance of is recorded as phonetic algorithm[3].
  • Metaphone's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1990-00-00T00:00:00Z[4].
  • Metaphone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/095d0[5].
  • Metaphone's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as metaphone[6].
  • Metaphone's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778586387[7].

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Designation and Status

Metaphone's instance of is recorded as phonetic algorithm[3].

Why It Matters

Metaphone draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (phonetic_algorithm category, ranking #2 of 4).[2] Metaphone has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_metaphone_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Metaphone}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/metaphone}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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