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 “specialties” 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.

33 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
specialties154466(None) 
specialities1656791specialities
specialise1446602special_ise
specialises1546002specialises
specializes2446442specializes
speciates13229232specia_t_es
penalties11139513_pe_nalties
socialites1247503s_ocialites
socialities1349293s_ocialities
spatialities1465563spatialities
specialer1344733special__er
specialest1445573special__est
specialised1654533specialised
specialism1646813special_ism
specialisms1745973specialisms
specialist1448343special_ist
specialists1546203specialists
speciality1746333special_ity
specialize2347193special_ize
specialized2545843specialized
specialness1554053specialness
specials1238033special___s
specialty1644303specialt__y
speciate12209583specia_t_e_
speciated14207543specia_t_ed
speciating1548123specia_ting
speciation1449393specia_tion
speciations1548483specia_tions
specifies1647573speci__fies
speciosities1653763speciosities
spectates13228813specta_t_es
speculates14237903speculat_es
subspecialties2061593subspecialties

Search took 6 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 Filter1786911216330.373479064.3
2DLD Change Limit121633335.26623097.8
3Display Results33330.0162062.5
 (SQL Overall)178691335.65531598.8
 
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.