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		gens on Feb 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anagram Scoring You could also use their Levenshtein distances.

lilyball on Feb 21, 2017 | [–]

See this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13698252) by lmkg for an explanation of why Levenshtein distance isn't good.

tyingq on Feb 21, 2017 | [–]

Here's the list, sorted with Levenshtein: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/431b163b2a2d532bfd0a3bdcc7...

Probably not the best approach, but it did unearth some interesting pairs.

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