Variable: soundex-alist

soundex-alist is a variable defined in soundex.el.gz.

Value

((66 . "1") (70 . "1") (80 . "1") (86 . "1") (67 . "2") (71 . "2")
 (74 . "2") (75 . "2") (81 . "2") (83 . "2") (88 . "2") (90 . "2")
 (68 . "3") (84 . "3") (76 . "4") (77 . "5") (78 . "5") (82 . "6"))

Documentation

Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/soundex.el.gz
;;; soundex.el --- implement Soundex algorithm -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (C) 1993, 2001-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Christian Plaunt <chris@bliss.berkeley.edu>
;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
;; Keywords: matching
;; Created: Sat May 15 14:48:18 1993

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of
;; how they sound.  Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string.

;;; Code:

(defconst soundex-alist
  '((?B . "1") (?F . "1") (?P . "1") (?V . "1")
    (?C . "2") (?G . "2") (?J . "2") (?K . "2") (?Q . "2") (?S . "2")
    (?X . "2") (?Z . "2") (?D . "3") (?T . "3") (?L . "4") (?M . "5")
    (?N . "5") (?R . "6"))
  "Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.")