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 “railroad” 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.

36 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
railroad94380(None) 
railroads1043521railroads
railhead1244182railhead
railroaded1251952railroaded
railroader1152332railroader
abroad9310943_a_broad
arilloid946623arilloid
armload1044293arml_oad
carload1039783carl_oad
fairlead1243513fairlead
inroad737933__inroad
kilorad1245393_kilorad
mailroom1244233mailroom
nailfold1242303nailfold
nailhead1243983nailhead
nonrailroad1271153nonrailroad
payload1336403payl_oad
railbird1143443railbird
railcar945483rail_car
railed74727543rail__ed
railheads1343973railheads
railroaders1251963railroaders
railroading1352373railroading
railway1345313rail_way
raincoat1046633raincoat
ramrod936833ra_mro_d
reload7413893r_el_oad
sailboard1245903sailboard
sailboat1047693sailboat
tailboard1245773tailboard
tailcoat1046853tailcoat
tailored936203tailored
trailhead1343423trailhead
trainload1043203trainload
tramroad1143763tra_mroad
vanload1144703vanl_oad

Search took 9 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 Filter1786911461620.440406115.9
2DLD Change Limit146162367.73318901.1
3Display Results36360.0162250.0
 (SQL Overall)178691368.18921820.9
 
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.