diff --git a/recordlinkage/preprocessing/__init__.py b/recordlinkage/preprocessing/__init__.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/recordlinkage/preprocessing/__init__.py
+++ b/recordlinkage/preprocessing/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ from recordlinkage.preprocessing.cleaning import *
 from recordlinkage.preprocessing.encoding import phonetic
 
 from recordlinkage.preprocessing.encoding import _list_phonetic_algorithms
+
 phonetic_algorithms = _list_phonetic_algorithms()
+"""List of available phonetic algorithms."""
Add docstring phonetic_algorithms attribute