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 “hairier” 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.

44 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
hairier10311105(None) 
airier64619361_airier
harrier104417751harrier
aerier64823152_aerier
airer54927892_air_er
barrier94017732barrier
carrier93619582carrier
charier124317902cha_rier
charrier1378682charrier
dairies84217732dairies
fairer95212062fair_er
fairies103516042fairies
farrier103514892farrier
glairier944842glairier
hagrider1334482hagrider
hailer94720342hai_ler
haired105117172hair_ed
hairiest11612472hairiest
hairnet10911702hairnet
hammier143510652hammier
handier113817442handier
happier143312042happier
harder105022402ha_rder
hardier114721542hardier
harmer114719552ha_rmer
harper115018402ha_rper
harried113815532harried
harriers113712432harriers
harries103525492harries
hastier103916622hastier
haulier1059942haulier
hazier184712402ha_zier
hirer85423122h_ir_er
hoarier104211742hoarier
hurrier103412942hurrier
marrier93817522marrier
mirier83918362_mirier
parrier93717652parrier
rainier71614262rainier
spirier93214072spirier
tarrier74323172tarrier
varier94619352va_rier
warier93722892wa_rier
wirier94215552_wirier

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 Limit107671443.45331181.9
3Display Results44440.0133384.6
 (SQL Overall)178691443.84246509.9
 
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.