soundalike

plural soundalikes

1. A sound that audibly resembles another.
   1. A music recording with this trait. (Often distinguished from plagiarism by themes of covering, pastiche (tribute), or parody, but sometimes inviting copyright disputes).

      In recent years there has been an increase in the number of soundalike recordings...

      2007, M William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M Gross, Jonathan Feinstein, This Business of Music

      1 more example

      See chapter 5, section 2.1 regarding soundalike cases. With respect to the copyright in the sound recording, however, it would not be infringement...

      1994, Thomas J Smedinghoff, The Software Publishers Association Legal Guide to Multimedia

   2. A word that is either homophonous or sounds similar enough to another that confusion of the two is known to happen.

      Tall-man lettering is sometimes used to reduce risk around soundalikes and lookalikes [medication names].

      1 more example

      Somewhat more problematic for a theory of written transmission are errors where a word is replaced not by a synonym but by a soundalike.

      2003, Nick Nicholas, George Baloglou, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary