Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

string distance

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: string dis-tance
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other.

Example Sentences

"The string distance between 'here' and 'there' is 1 (insertion of a t)."

Inflected Forms

string distances (plural)

Phrases

Hamming distance Levenshtein distance

Frequently Paired Words

Hamming distance Levenshtein distance

Synonyms

edit distance

Questions

What does string distance mean?: Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other.

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