Why Play?

Many years ago, I translated a giant list of 84,000 English words into 9 other languages. I was 17 and naïve thinking I could use this for sentence translations. The resulting dataset wasn’t completely useless, however. By joining on the translation results and using fuzzy matching I could do all sorts of odd things – like find similar words.

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SoundsLike (Double-Metaphone)

This form takes a single word locates other words in the database that sound similar according to the Double-Metaphone alogrithm. Feel free to add a % sign to the beginning and/or end of the word to match wildcards.


Word Language Dirty?
¡Ay Spanish False
10代 Italian False
Äh German False
äh German False
äijä Dutch False
äijä Dutch False
äijä Dutch False
äijä Finnish False
äijä Finnish False
äijä Finnish False
äijä Latin False
äijä Latin False
äijä Latin False
é Portuguese False
H Dutch False
H English False
H Finnish False
H German False
h German False
H German False
H Latin False
H2o English False
HA English False
ha Italian False
ha Italian False
Portuguese False
hah English False
hai Dutch False
Hai English False
hai Finnish False
hai German False
hai Latin False
Häijy Dutch False
häijy Dutch False
Häijy Finnish False
häijy Finnish False
Häijy Latin False
häijy Latin False
haje English False
haji English False
haji Spanish False
hajj English False
hajji English False
haju Dutch False
haju Dutch False
haju Dutch False
haju Finnish False
haju Finnish False
haju Finnish False
haju Latin False
haju Latin False
haju Latin False
hall English False
Halla Dutch False
halla Dutch False
halla Finnish False
Halla Finnish False
halla Latin False
Halla Latin False
hallah English False
Halle English False
halle German False
Hallo German False
hallo German False
halloh German False
halloo English False
Hallway English False
hao English False
Happi Dutch False
Happi Finnish False
Happi Latin False
happo Dutch False
happo Finnish False
happo Latin False
happy English False
haß German False
Hau English False
Hau German False
Hawai Spanish False
Hawaï French False
Hawaii English False
Hawaii German False
Hawaii Spanish False
Hawai'i English False
hay English False
haya Spanish False
Haye French False
he Dutch False
he English False
he Finnish False
he Latin False
He Spanish False
hee English False
hei Dutch True
hei Dutch False
hei Finnish False
hei Finnish True
hei Latin False
hei Latin True
hei hei Dutch False
hei hei Finnish False
hei hei Latin False
Heille Dutch False
Heille Finnish False
Heille Latin False
hell English True
Hell German False
he'll English False
hellä Dutch False
hellä Finnish False
hellä Latin False
hello English False
heu German False
Hey English False
hey Spanish False
HI English False
Hieß German False
high English False
Highway English False
hiippa Dutch False
hiippa Dutch False
hiippa Finnish False
hiippa Finnish False
hiippa Latin False
hiippa Latin False
Hijja English False
Hijjah English False
Hill English False
hilly English False
hioa Dutch False
hioa Finnish False
hioa Latin False
hippi Dutch False
hippi Finnish False
hippi Latin False
hippie English False
hippie German False
Hippo English False
hippy English False
ho Dutch False
ho English True
ho Finnish False
ho Italian False
Ho Italian False
ho Latin False
hoe English False
Höhe German False
Höhe German False
hoi English False
Hoje Portuguese False
holla English False
Holley English False
hollo English False
holloa English False
holly English False
hoo English False
hooey English True
Hoppu Dutch False
Hoppu Finnish False
Hoppu Latin False
houx French False
Howe English False
hoy English False
hoy Spanish False
Hoya English False
HUA English False
hue English False
huella Spanish False
Huella Spanish False
Hugh English False
HUJI English False
Hull English False
hullo English False
Hullu Dutch False
hullu Dutch False
hullu Dutch False
hullu Dutch False
hullu Dutch False
hullu Dutch False
hullu Finnish False
hullu Finnish False
hullu Finnish False
Hullu Finnish False
hullu Finnish False
hullu Finnish False
hullu Latin False
hullu Latin False
Hullu Latin False
hullu Latin False
hullu Latin False
hullu Latin False
huye Spanish False
huye Spanish False
huyó Spanish False
HW English False
hylly Dutch False
hylly Dutch False
hylly Finnish False
hylly Finnish False
hylly Latin False
hylly Latin False
hyppääjä Dutch False
hyppääjä Finnish False
hyppääjä Latin False
hyppii Dutch False
hyppii Finnish False
hyppii Latin False
hyppy Dutch False
hyppy Finnish False
hyppy Latin False
hyppyjä Dutch False
hyppyjä Finnish False
hyppyjä Latin False
Llewelly English False
-o Portuguese False
Pb English False
W English False
wälle German False
WWW English False
Хауърд Dutch False
Хауърд Finnish False
Хауърд Latin False
ارقه Dutch False
ارقه Finnish False
ارقه Latin False
هلن Dutch False
هلن Finnish False
هلن Latin False