About the generation of similar words

[nablator]

Basic idea: When reading the Voynich text it is common to find groups of very similar words within a short space. For example: qokedy, qokeedy, qokeey, qokeeydy.
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Reconstructing relationships: Once a burst has been identified, the next step is to look at how the variants relate to each other. For each new variant, we look at whether it is more similar to the core or to a previous variant within the same burst. From this, we can reconstruct a small dependency structure.

The problem with "bursts" detection by edit distance ≤ 2 is that it adds a lot of false positives to the group, unrelated words that happen to be "similar", especially short words like "or" and "dy" that are as dissimilar as they can be.

With such an unreliable definition I'm afraid that the dependency reconstruction is mostly illusory.