---
title: "fuzzystrmatch extension"
url: "https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/additional-features/pg-extensions/extension-fuzzystrmatch/"
---

# fuzzystrmatch extension

Using the fuzzystrmatch extension in YugabyteDB

The [fuzzystrmatch](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/fuzzystrmatch.html "fuzzystrmatch") module provides several functions to determine similarities and distance between strings.

```sql
CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;

SELECT levenshtein('Yugabyte', 'yugabyte'), metaphone('yugabyte', 8);
```

```output
 levenshtein | metaphone
-------------+-----------
           2 | YKBT
(1 row)
```