Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

edit distance

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English

Syllables: ed-it dis-tance
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of string distance.

Example Sentences

"We introduce an exact formula for the maximum number of common supersequences shared by sequences at a certain edit distance, yielding an upper bound on the number of distinct traces necessary to guarantee exact reconstruction."

Inflected Forms

edit distances (plural)

Synonyms

string distance

Questions

What does edit distance mean?: Synonym of string distance.

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