Metaphone
by Text Similarity in Other
Original Metaphone (Philips 1990, not Double) phonetic key of an English word, with optional second word to compare.
https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 56.3%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 536 ms
- 723 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next in 4 h
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Polygon, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone?other=Night&word=KnightParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
other | string | No | Optional second word to compare keys |
word | string | Yes | An English word or name, up to 200 characters (letters only are used) |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"asOf": "2026-10-12T00:50:07.935Z",
"degraded": false,
"disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
"key": "NT",
"notChecked": [
"Double Metaphone and Metaphone 3 are different algorithms with different keys",
"the published rule list is incomplete; the resolutions used are listed in the answer's reasons",
"…1 more"
],
"other": "Night",
"otherKey": "NT",
"reasons": [
"Variant: original Metaphone. Resolutions: duplicate letters collapse except C; initial KN GN PN WR AE drop the first letter, X becomes S, WH becomes W; digraph H consumed in CH SH PH TH GH; lone H kep…"
],
"sameKey": true,
"source": "computed locally (original Metaphone, Lawrence Philips 1990, public rule list)",
"summary": "Knight is NT and Night is NT: same key.",
"variant": "original-metaphone",
"verdict": "SAME_KEY",
"word": "Knight"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone?other=Night&word=Knight'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone?other=Night&word=Knight' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftext-similarity.x402tookit.com%2Fmetaphone
const res = await pay("https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone?other=Night&word=Knight");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://text-similarity.x402tookit.com/metaphone?other=Night&word=Knight")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 h ago | Passed | 402 | 563 ms | $0.02 |
| 15 h ago | Passed | 402 | 544 ms | $0.02 |
| 44 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 105 ms | - |
| 3 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 145 ms | - |
| 4 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 85 ms | - |
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| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 96 ms | - |
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| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 536 ms | $0.02 |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 523 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 723 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 517 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 516 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 571 ms | $0.02 |