spell.doubleMetaphone

spell.doublemetaphonespelldoublemetaphone

/apidoc/8.0/spell:double-metaphone.xml

Given a word returns the two metaphone keys. The primary and secondary metaphone keys which represent the phonetic encoding of two words are returned as a sequence of two strings. Double metaphone is an algorithm based on phonetic sounds useful in providing data to spelling correction suggestions.

The word for phonetic matching.

word

String

ValueIterator The spell:double-metaphone function is a built-in function and does not require the import module statement in the XQuery prolog.

spell.doubleMetaphone("smith");
  
=> smo xmt

spell.doubleMetaphone("jones");
  
=> jns ans