Sequence Alignment of Words

word1	unaccustomed
word2	baldfaced

{unaccustomed,baldfaced}

u

-

n

b

a

cc

--

ustom

ldfac

ed

Sequence alignment is usually used to analyze DNA sequences. This is an example of applying the same operation to ordinary words. The built-in Mathematica function to do this is called SequenceAlignment and the words come from Mathematica's built-in dictionary.