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Table 6 Minimum edit distances required to convert misspelled words into correct words in the test dataset

From: Improving the quality of Persian clinical text with a novel spelling correction system

Edit-Distance

Non-word Error

Real-word Error

Total

1

86.4

85.5

86.1

2

14.0

12.6

13.7

3 + 

2.1

1.9

2.1