| Portmanteau | Phoneme 1 | Phoneme 2 | Phonetic Probability | Phonetic Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sloperate (slobber/operate) | S·L·AA₁·B·ER₀ | AA₁·P·ER₀·EY₂·T | 8.84e-09 | 2 |
| puground (pug/aground) | P·AH₁·G | AH₀·G·R·AW₁·N·D | 1.45e-07 | 1 |
| mastiffoul (mastiff/afoul) | M·AE₁·S·T·AH₀·F | AH₀·F·AW₁·L | 3.24e-07 | 0 |
| stayne (stay/dane) | S·T·EY₁ | D·EY₁·N | 1.54e-07 | 2 |
| chienter (chien/enter) | CH·EH₁·N | EH₁·N·T·ER₀ | 1.97e-06 | 0 |
| catvertise (cat/advertise) | K·AE₁·T | AE₁·D·V·ER₀·T·AY₂·Z | 6.76e-07 | 2 |
| ranimal (ran/animal) | R·AE₁·N | AE₁·N·AH₀·M·AH₀·L | 4.05e-06 | 0 |
| muttminister (mutt/administer) | M·AH₁·T | AH₀·D·M·IH₁·N·AH₀·S·T·ER₀ | 5.14e-07 | 3 |
| scamperro (scamper/perro) | S·K·AE₁·M·P·ER₀ | P·ER₁·R·OW₀ | 4.50e-06 | 1 |
| schnausurvive (schnauzer/survive) | SH·N·AW₁·Z·ER₀ | S·ER₀·V·AY₁·V | 3.16e-06 | 2 |
| slobberform (slobber/perform) | S·L·AA₁·B·ER₀ | P·ER₀·F·AO₁·R·M | 5.96e-06 | 2 |
| rabbitminister (rabbit/administer) | R·AE₁·B·AH₀·T | AH₀·D·M·IH₁·N·AH₀·S·T·ER₀ | 7.12e-06 | 2 |
| schnauserve (schnauzer/serve) | SH·N·AW₁·Z·ER₀ | S·ER₁·V | 4.88e-06 | 3 |
| carrytriever (carry/retriever) | K·AE₁·R·IY₀ | R·IY₀·T·R·IY₁·V·ER₀ | 6.48e-05 | 0 |
| Rhyme | Phoneme 1 | Phoneme 2 | Phonetic Probability | Phonetic Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aground greyhound | AH₀·G·R·AW₁·N·D | G·R·EY₁·HH·AW₂·N·D | 6.60e-08 | 0 |
| aground hound | AH₀·G·R·AW₁·N·D | HH·AW₁·N·D | 1.02e-07 | 0 |
| bark embark | B·AA₁·R·K | EH₀·M·B·AA₁·R·K | 1.31e-07 | 0 |
| mutt shut | M·AH₁·T | SH·AH₁·T | 1.37e-07 | 0 |
| breed proceed | B·R·IY₁·D | P·R·AH₀·S·IY₁·D | 8.19e-07 | 0 |
| breed succeed | B·R·IY₁·D | S·AH₀·K·S·IY₁·D | 8.19e-07 | 0 |
| dane maintain | D·EY₁·N | M·EY₀·N·T·EY₁·N | 5.30e-06 | 0 |
| pet set | P·EH₁·T | S·EH₁·T | 8.44e-06 | 0 |
| pet get | P·EH₁·T | G·EH₁·T | 8.44e-06 | 0 |
The code for generating the portmanteaus and rhymes can be found at the entendrepreneur-web github repository. This algorithm was presented at the NeurIPS 2018 Creativity and Design Workshop under the title "Entendrepreneur: Generating Humorous Portmanteaus using Word-Embeddings", the associated conference paper can be found here. All credit for the code and the algorithm goes to Jonathan Simon. Please direct any questions to [email protected].
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