PHP Sounds Like Text Search
composer require "felipecwb/soundslike"
It's looks like that:
use Felipecwb\SoundsLike\TextSearch;
$search = new TextSearch([
"São Paulo - SP",
"Osasco - SP",
"Curitiba - PR",
"Curitibanos - SC",
"Vitória - ES",
"Rio de Janeiro - RJ",
"Natal - RN"
]);
// find for the best matching text
$result = $search->findBestMatch('Sao paulo');
$result->getPhrase(); //São Paulo - SP
$result->getAgainst(); //Sao paulo
$result->getSimilarity(); //7