I think this is a good idea; I just pushed new unit test test_similarity()
to github which finds such similar words. Right now it identifies ~90
similar pairs in current wordlist, I'll update wordlist tomorrow to pass
this test.

slush

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, jan <jan.marecek@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think avoiding words that could look similar when written down would
> be a good idea aswell. I searched for words that only differ by the
> letters c & e, g & y, u & v and found the following:
>
> car ear
> cat eat
> gear year
> value valve
>
> Other combinations could potentially be problematic depending on the
> handwriting style: ft, ao, ij, vy, possibly even lt and il?
>
>