One term of the score

Sound-to-spelling test

Some names have one obvious spelling the moment you hear them. Others hand the listener a choice - “f” or “ph”, a hard “c” or a soft one, “ough” with six pronunciations. This tool scores only that: how many ways a listener could reasonably write down what they heard.

What this term measures

Sounds with more than one common spelling. The “ph” in “phone” could be “f”; the “c” in “city” could be “s”. The scan finds every grapheme in the name that a listener could reasonably write a different way.

Detector
P2G ambiguity
Term
p
Weight
15
Costs up to
60 points

Read the whole story in The radio test for business names .

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Enter a name to score sound-to-spelling.

Nothing is stored, and only this one term is scored.

The other terms

A name is scored on six things. This page covers one of them.

Score the whole name

All six terms, one DTRI number, and the arithmetic behind it.