| Portmanteau | Phoneme 1 | Phoneme 2 | Phonetic Probability | Phonetic Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scadegorize (scad/categorize) | S·K·AE₁·D | K·AE₁·T·AH₀·G·ER₀·AY₂·Z | 2.79e-08 | 2 |
| doctorbot (doctor/turbot) | D·AA₁·K·T·ER₀ | T·ER₂·B·OW₁ | 4.88e-07 | 0 |
| filletbel (fillet/label) | F·AH₀·L·EY₁ | L·EY₁·B·AH₀·L | 7.28e-07 | 0 |
| correctopus (correct/octopus) | K·ER₀·EH₁·K·T | AA₁·K·T·AH₀·P·UH₂·S | 4.55e-08 | 4 |
| incorroctopus (incorrect/octopus) | IH₀·N·K·ER₀·EH₁·K·T | AA₁·K·T·AH₀·P·UH₂·S | 4.55e-08 | 4 |
| misspollack (misspell/pollack) | M·IH₀·S·S·P·EH₁·L | P·AA₁·L·AH₀·K | 1.56e-07 | 4 |
| basabstandard (basa/substandard) | B·AA₁·S·AH₀ | S·AH₀·B·S·T·AE₁·N·D·ER₀·D | 7.94e-06 | 0 |
| croakerrect (croaker/correct) | K·R·OW₁·K·ER₀ | K·ER₀·EH₁·K·T | 8.96e-06 | 0 |
| lampreypackaged (lamprey/repackaged) | L·AE₁·M·P·R·IY₀ | R·IY₁·P·AE₀·K·IH₀·JH·D | 3.14e-05 | 1 |
| Rhyme | Phoneme 1 | Phoneme 2 | Phonetic Probability | Phonetic Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mistake hake | M·IH₀·S·T·EY₁·K | HH·EY₁·K | 1.71e-07 | 0 |
| mistake lake | M·IH₀·S·T·EY₁·K | L·EY₁·K | 1.71e-07 | 0 |
| vertebrate misstate | V·ER₁·T·AH₀·B·R·EY₂·T | M·IH₀·S·S·T·EY₁·T | 4.21e-06 | 0 |
| vertebrate overstate | V·ER₁·T·AH₀·B·R·EY₂·T | OW₁·V·ER₀·S·T·EY₂·T | 1.63e-05 | 0 |
| vertebrate contaminate | V·ER₁·T·AH₀·B·R·EY₂·T | K·AH₀·N·T·AE₁·M·AH₀·N·EY₂·T | 1.63e-05 | 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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