Anaphones

Anaphones are like anagrams but for sounds (phonemes). Examples include: salami-awesomely, atari-tiara, and beefy-phoebe. Anaphones can be anagrams, like atari-tiara, but they don't have to be, and most anagrams are not anaphones. Anaphones also include homophones, like their-there-they're, but the interesting anaphones are ones that have distinct pronunciations.

I've compiled a dictionary of them because why not? The relevant files are:

• ipa-dict-en_US.json: the phonetic dictionary used to find the anaphones.

• anaphones.json: the complete dictionary of all anaphones I found.

• anaphones_unique_pronunciation.json: same as anaphones.json but deduplicates pronunciations, so homophones like "there, their, they're" will only have one representative.

• anaphones_nontrivial_unique_pronunciation.json: additionally filters out words that do not have any anaphones that are not homophones.

• anaphones.py: the Python code used to generate the dictionaries.