diff --git a/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/ext_tables.sql b/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/ext_tables.sql
index b32accb4b354fc46242abaa84683cc2a3f28c772..64b839ef1017882d47fa28c528b93ece00b86040 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/ext_tables.sql
+++ b/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/ext_tables.sql
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ CREATE TABLE index_rel (
 CREATE TABLE index_words (
   wid int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
   baseword varchar(60) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
-  metaphone int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
+  metaphone varchar(60) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
   is_stopword tinyint(3) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
   PRIMARY KEY (wid),
   KEY baseword (baseword),