Welcome!   |  Search Scrabble® Dictionary using DLD   |  Statistics   |  Compare any two Strings using DLD   |  Reference   |  Your IP

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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “billboarding” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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

28 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
billboarding185181(None) 
billboard1444713billboard___
billboarded1751713billboard_ed
billboards1544063billboard__s
bodyboarding2261683bodyboarding
sailboarding1652123sailboarding
belaboring1544034belabo_r_ing
belabouring1652334belabour_ing
billowing1545874bill_o__wing
boarding123110234____boarding
bombarding1843834b_omb_arding
breadboarding2061584breadboarding
bullbaiting1651944bullb_aiting
clapboarding2051554clapboarding
hilloaing1375434hill_oa__ing
keyboarding2261824_keyboarding
millboard1444654millboard___
millboards1544094millboard__s
pillaring1237644pill__ar_ing
pillorying1642794pill_o_rying
pollarding1444234poll__arding
preboarding1744274_preboarding
reboarding1445674__reboarding
sailboardings1771534sailboardings
snowboarding1981924snowboarding
starboarding1652074starboarding
surfboarding1951574surfboarding
wakeboarding23352904wakeboarding

Search took 8 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 Filter1786911247900.390458182.1
2DLD Change Limit124790286.61018879.0
3Display Results28280.0161750.0
 (SQL Overall)178691287.01625469.1
 
Comments and Suggestions welcome: FaceBook ~ UserVoice ~ SQLServerCentral  |  Developed By: Tom Keller Consulting © 2011-2025  |  Published At: SQLServerCentral (with Source Code)  |  Presented At: SQLSaturday #144  |  Demonstrated For: Sacramento SQL Server User Group  |  Developed For: Repo Remarketing  |  Running On: Microsoft SQL 2014 RTM Standard on Server 2012 R2 (also successfully run on SQL 2012 Web Edition, SQL Express 2008-2008R2, and SQL Server 2000-2005 Standard)  |  SQL Performance Monitoring By: Confio Ignite  |  American Scrabble® Dictionary From: Internet Scrabble Club  |  Scrabble® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. This site is not affiliated with Scrabble®, Mattel, Spear, or Hasbro in any way. This site is for entertainment and technical education purposes only.