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Evening,

Is there any way to tweak SOUNDS LIKE in MySQL so it returns results from a narrower phonetic range? Or another feature that allows this.

I am looking for as narrow a range as possible, e.g.

Hopkins matches Hopkins
John doesn't match Jones
Bell doesn't match Ball
Pacman matches Packman
Kohjah Breese
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    Maybe [Levenshtein distance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance)? – bfavaretto Jun 01 '12 at 04:05
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    See this SO question for more help : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/634995/implementation-of-levenshtein-distance-for-mysql-fuzzy-search – DhruvPathak Jun 01 '12 at 05:32

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