Children's Printed Word Database

Phonological Neighbours

Definition: Phonological neighbours are generated by taking a word, and replacing each phoneme in turn with every other phoneme.  The result is then compared to the rest of the database, and hence the neighbours are based on the database only.  Proper nouns are excluded from the generation of neighbours (where possible).

This search takes a word or list of words provided by the user and generates a list of their phonological neighbours.

Please enter your word(s).  The list must have one word on each line; please avoid additional spaces.

NB Please note that homophones do contribute to phonological neighbourhoods, i.e. soul and sole would BOTH be phonological neighbours of mole.
Words can be pasted in from other applications.

 

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