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Dictionary Search Results using Damerau-Levenshtein distance in T-SQL

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “advocating” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4]

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
to automatically increase the Change Limit after seconds.

35 similar words found! Changes to Transform each Found Word to your word are shown as:
 remove a letter ~ replace a letter ~ swap two letters ~ _add a letter from your word
(Use the links in the Changes column to see more Transformation details.)

Found WordScrabble ScoreSearched PreviouslyFound PreviouslyChangesTo Transform to your Word
advocating174448(None) 
advecting1645112advec_ting
advocation1645742advocation
advocations1755412advocations
advocative1943962advocative
allocating1347382allocating
invocating1646332invocating
abdicating1686153abdicating
abrogating1497983abrogating
addicting1485073addic_ting
adducting1494303adduc_ting
adopting1237453ad_o_pting
adulating1178713ad_ulating
adverting1437223adv_erting
advocacies1853123advocacies
advocate1445833advocat__e
advocated1644643advocat_ed
advocates1545883advocat_es
advocator1563793advocat_or
advocators1663913advocators
annotating1146233annotating
arrogating121778393arrogating
associating1444863associating
automating1389303automating
aviating12311013a_v_iating
avocation14168993a_vocation
avocations15168683a_vocations
colocating1548623colocating
doating93816863_d_o_ating
donating10311803_d_onating
educating1337933ed_ucating
locating11311503__locating
radicating1459063rad_icating
relocating13310873relocating
vacating14310353__vacating

Search took 7 seconds overall (including website activity, plus SQL activity in the following phases):

  1. Length Filter: Limit the application of DLD to words with length difference of no more than the Change Limit.
  2. DLD Change Limit: Apply DLD to each remaining word, limiting each comparison according to the Change Limit.
  3. Display Results: Return the results, with similar words marked up to highlight differences.
SeqSearch PhaseWords CheckedWords MatchedSecondsWords Per Sec
1Length Filter1786911406030.423422437.4
2DLD Change Limit140603356.01623371.5
3Display Results35350.0132692.3
 (SQL Overall)178691356.45227695.4
 
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