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 forretrogressive” 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.

12 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
retrogressive176264(None) 
introgressive1762792introgressive
retrogressing1553162retrogressing
retrogression14103422retrogression
retrogressively2271752retrogressively
progressive1755183__progressive
regressive1446493re___gressive
retrogress1143433retrogress___
retrogressed1452713retrogress_ed
retrogresses1353563retrogress_es
retrogressions15113163retrogressions
unprogressive1962503unprogressive

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 Filter178691658740.326548131.9
2DLD Change Limit65874122.76623815.6
3Display Results12120.000 
 (SQL Overall)178691123.09257791.4