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Words of a natural language are called paronyms if they are close to each other on sounding, but their partial coincidence is of accidental character and is not related neither to semantics nor to processes of formation of words. The purpose of the article is to describe a procedure of creating an electronic dictionary of paronyms of the Russian language and deriving exact characteristics of variability of the language as whole and variability of individual words. The variability means the ability of one word to be transformed into another word of the given dictionary by means of a minor modification of their letter structure. The electronic dictionary of paronyms was created on the base of a representative vocabulary of the Russian language containing more than 100 thousand words.