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 “censure” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3]

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

46 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
censure9231060(None) 
censured11248911censured
censurer10228131censurer
censures102211621censures
ensure63416001_ensure
ceinture1036312ceinture
cense75121402cens__e
censer84516582censer_
censers94313902censers
censor84011292censor_
censored11197952censored
censors93611842censors
censual937662censual
censurers11256072censurers
census84310302censu_s
censused11184972censused
censuses10187542censuses
centare93113702centare
centre84316642cen_tre
century1237192century
cesura838762ce_sura
cesurae937702ce_surae
closure9278482closure
coendure1145462coendure
coenure968152coen_ure
coinsure1046932coinsure
conjure16109072conjure
consume11510132consume
cynosure1343552cynosure
denture8311892denture
endure74014142_endure
ensue54013832_ensu_e
ensured83512942_ensured
ensurer73011902_ensurer
ensures73315902_ensures
enure53520222_en_ure
insure63416602_insure
leisure736692leisure
licensure1143042licensure
measure939032measure
reinsure837912reinsure
seisure738192seisure
tenure6311612ten_ure
tonsure758782tonsure
unsure62815412_unsure
venture10311172venture

Search took 4 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 Filter1786911076710.376475242.0
2DLD Change Limit107671463.18633795.0
3Display Results46460.0162875.0
 (SQL Overall)178691463.57849941.6
 
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.