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 “hydrospheric” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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

30 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
hydrospheric266302(None) 
hydrosphere2353402hydrospher_e
hydrospheres2453392hydrospheres
hydrophilic2555193hydro_philic
hydrophobic2784753hydro_phobic
hydrophytic2855473hydro_phytic
atmospheric2052974_atmospheric
biospheric1954254__biospheric
chromospheric2762644chromospheric
exospheric2453544__exospheric
hemispheric2352874h_emispheric
hydrocephalic2963094hydrocephalic
hydrokinetic2563014hydrokinetic
hydrometric2275904hydro_metric
hydropathic2564954hydro_pathic
hydrophobia2584364hydro_phobia
hydropic1947274hydro_p___ic
hydroponic2155874hydro_p_onic
hydrosere1644824hydros__er_e
hydroseres1745054hydros__eres
hydrosolic1954614hydros__olic
hydrostatic2065234hydros_tatic
hygrophytic2854034hygro_phytic
ionospheric1853474_ionospheric
lithospheric2262444lithospheric
mesospheric2053314_mesospheric
photospheric2455134photospheric
pyrophoric2256374py_ro_phoric
thermospheric2562964thermospheric
tropospheric2162964tropospheric

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 Filter1786911247900.406440125.6
2DLD Change Limit124790306.84318236.2
3Display Results30300.0161875.0
 (SQL Overall)178691307.26524596.1
 
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.