Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keyboard distance

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: key-board- dis-tance
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard, distance.

Example Sentences

"We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys based on the minimum number of adjacent keys that the finger must travel over to reach one from the other assuming a QWERTY keyboard layout. For example the keyboard distance for the {a,s} pair is 1 and {a,c} is 3 (based on the path a→s→d→c) by this definition."

Inflected Forms

keyboard distances (plural)

Questions

What does keyboard distance mean?: The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.

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