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Re:Ask HN: How to easily check if two words are too close by niftich on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:41AM (#12230642)
You're looking for Levenshtein distance [1] or a similar string distance algorithm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

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Re:Ask HN: How to easily check if two words are too close by data37 on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:03AM (#12230714)
Yes. I'm actually looking for simpler implementations for use at https://worktheme.com
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