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 “waistline” 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.

48 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
waistline124417(None) 
waistlines1343891waistlines
waisting123615212waist_ing
warstling1335062warstling
whistling1644732whistling
airline7315033_ai_rline
baseline10310753ba_seline
bristling1246663bristling
bustline10208843_bustline
castling11311233ca_stling
coastline1196363coastline
fishline14237583_fishline
frostline1245883frostline
gantline9410903ga_ntline
gasoline938523ga_soline
hairline1137873hai_rline
isoline7314013__isoline
mainline1039863mai_nline
mastlike1437863ma_stlike
pristine10313503prist_ine
ratline74517803ra__tline
saintlike1344783saintlike
vaseline1138613va_seline
waiflike1834573wai_flike
wailing113620903wai__ling
waistband1542243waistband
waistings1352710763waist_ings
waistless1235093waistless
waiting113618953wai_t_ing
waitlist1147743wai_tlist
warsling12198593wars_ling
warstle10328013warstl__e
wartlike1537043wa_rtlike
wasplike1734893wa_splike
wasting114422843wa_st_ing
wastrie101210303wa_stri_e
waterline1249653waterline
wattling12258783wa_ttling
whisting15329543whist_ing
whistle13107533whistl__e
whistlings1742913whistlings
whittling1634383whittling
wintling12249923w_intling
wisplike1734713w_isplike
wisting113519743w_ist_ing
witling113215813w_i_tling
wrastling1335523wrastling
wrestling1336063wrestling

Search took 8 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 Filter1786911486410.423422437.4
2DLD Change Limit148641486.59322545.3
3Display Results48480.0301600.0
 (SQL Overall)178691487.04625360.6
 
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.