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 “beshrewing” 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
beshrewing194288(None) 
bestrewing1643771bestrewing
bestrowing1644372bestrowing
shrewing15228092__shrewing
bedewing1537143be__dewing
bescreening1642773bescreening
beseeming1435143bes_eeming
beshadowing2191873beshadowing
beshaming1735673besh_aming
beshivering2052543beshivering
beshouting1644023beshouting
beshrew1554393beshrew___
beshrewed1882723beshrew_ed
beshrews1643163beshrew__s
beshrouding1852233beshrouding
besieging1344763bes_ieging
besnowing1544123bes_nowing
bespreading1743503bespreading
bestowing1535803bes_towing
bestrewn1343323bestrew_n_
bestriding1446003bestriding
brewing133411153b___rewing
busheling1535503bush_eling
eschewing1893503_eschewing
escrowing1544813_escrowing
rechewing1836493rech_ewing
resewing122712263res__ewing
reshoeing1336593reshoe_ing
reshowing1646633resh_owing
screwing14288233__screwing
shewing143812193__sh_ewing
strewing12289853__strewing
unscrewing1643203unscrewing

Search took 7 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 Filter1786911406030.406440125.6
2DLD Change Limit140603335.73324525.2
3Display Results33330.0162062.5
 (SQL Overall)178691336.15529031.8
 
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.