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by scarmig 1865 days ago
Strained is closer in Levenshtein distance, but I'd bet tainted was the original word.
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It's also closer in "typo" distance (https://xkcd.com/1530/), although perhaps not with autocorrect.

edit: although now that I think of it, I suppose a "typo" distance is something of a weighted Levenshtein