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 “poboys” 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.

35 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
poboys139731(None) 
poboy121612221poboy_
potboys1475271potboys
boys96737332__boys
cowboys1735252cowboys
goboes95914442goboes
gobos86219382gobo_s
hoboes114717452hoboes
hobos106321352hobo_s
kobos115616892kobo_s
lobos75921842lobo_s
lowboys1534212lowboys
obeys107010642_obeys
oboes75717712_oboes
obols73715862_obols
plowboys1842362plowboys
ploys105816592p_loys
pogeys124110352pogeys
pokeys15529512pokeys
polos76129912polo_s
polys105718762po_lys
pomos95321582pomo_s
poods85124752po_ods
poofs105222792po_ofs
poohs103915712po_ohs
pools74427702po_ols
poons75430972po_ons
poops94422412po_ops
poos65949112po_o_s
porous84419482porous
postboys1585272postboys
potboy1397812potboy_
poyous112911622poyous
robots8313152robots
tomboys1435712tomboys

Search took 5 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 Filter178691825510.360496363.9
2DLD Change Limit82551354.04620403.1
3Display Results35350.0162187.5
 (SQL Overall)178691354.42240409.5
 
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.