This public domain Common Lisp implementation of the Levenshtein Distance was converted to Common Lisp from the Scheme example given in Wikipedia.
Levenshtein is ASDF-installable.
Download ASDF package from http://abstractnonsense.com/levenshtein-1.0.tgz
Soundex may also be of interest for those wanting to sort or compare words.
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