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levenshtein distance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables
lev-en-shtein dis-tance
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of edits (replacements, deletions and insertions) required to change one string into another.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Levenshtein + distance, after the Russian mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Levenshtein distances (plural)

Questions

What does levenshtein distance mean?
The number of edits (replacements, deletions and insertions) required to change one string into another.
Where does levenshtein distance come from?
From Levenshtein + distance, after the Russian mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein.

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