# leven

> Measure the difference between two strings using the [Levenshtein distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) algorithm

## Install

```
$ npm install leven
```

## Usage

```js
import leven from 'leven';

leven('cat', 'cow');
//=> 2
```

## Related

- [leven-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven-cli) - CLI for this module

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Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm. 

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Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm

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Measure the difference between two strings using the fastest JS implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm

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