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Soundexes

Soundexes is the plural of Soundex.

Soundexes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Soundex.

Meaning of Soundex

Noun

Soundex (plural Soundexes)

  1. A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search for a misspelled name may find the desired one.
    • Basically, the Soundex algorithm converts each string into an alphanumeric code that begins with the first letter of the string.2022, Wallace Wang, Beginning Programming All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 439

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Questions about Soundexes

What is Soundexes the plural of?
Soundexes is the plural of Soundex.

Words near Soundexes in the dictionary

  1. sounders
  2. soundest
  3. soundeth
  4. soundex
  5. Soundexed
  6. Soundexes
  7. Soundexing
  8. soundfont
  9. soundfonts
  10. soundfront
  11. soundful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Soundexes (page history and authors); Soundex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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