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rapidfuzz / RapidFuzz

Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics

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Updated Aug 30, 2026
Python

aceakash / string-similarity

Finds degree of similarity between two strings, based on Dice's Coefficient, which is mostly better than Levenshtein distance.

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Updated May 1, 2023
JavaScript

hbollon / go-edlib

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📚 String comparison and edit distance algorithms library, featuring : Levenshtein, LCS, Hamming, Damerau levenshtein (OSA and Adjacent transpositions algorithms), Jaro-Winkler, Cosine, etc...

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Updated Feb 5, 2026
Go

PHLAK / Twine

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String manipulation, leveled up! A PHP library for expressive, fluent string manipulation.

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Updated May 3, 2026
PHP

rapidfuzz / Levenshtein

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The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity

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Updated Aug 31, 2026
C++

rapidfuzz / rapidfuzz-cpp

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Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the Levenshtein Distance

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Updated Aug 30, 2026
C++

tompazourek / NaturalSort.Extension

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🔀 Extension method for StringComparison that adds support for natural sorting (e.g. "abc1", "abc2", "abc10" instead of "abc1", "abc10", "abc2").

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Updated Feb 16, 2026
C#

rapidfuzz / JaroWinkler

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Python library for fast approximate string matching using Jaro and Jaro-Winkler similarity

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Updated Jan 8, 2024
Python

anirbanmu / str_metrics

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Ruby gem (native extension in Rust) providing implementations of various string metrics

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Updated May 7, 2022
Ruby

Rabbitzzc / js-string-comparison

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🤠A library implementing different string similarity using JavaScript.

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Updated Apr 10, 2025
TypeScript

hbakhtiyor / strsim

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string similarity based on Dice's coefficient in go

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Updated Jan 7, 2019
Go

vanessaklee / akin

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A collection of metrics and phonetic algorithms for fuzzy string matching in Elixir.

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Updated Sep 3, 2023
Elixir

augustoproiete / NaturalStringExtensions

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Extensions for sorting strings using natural sort order i.e. Alphabetical order for humans

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Updated Jan 22, 2026
C#

rapidfuzz / CyDifflib

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CyDifflib is a fast implementation of difflib's algorithms, which can be used as a drop-in replacement.

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Updated Apr 11, 2025
Cython

sumn2u / string-comparisons

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A collection of string comparisons algorithms

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Updated Apr 18, 2024
JavaScript

⚡ Fast, zero-dependency text diff & string comparison for JavaScript/TypeScript — Myers O(ND) shortest edit script on typed arrays. Word/char/line/grapheme modes, Unicode-safe (Korean, CJK, emoji), ~2.9 kB min+gzip, works in Node and browsers.