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 forcatamaran” 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.

18 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
catamaran134420(None) 
catamarans1453191catamarans
ataman81013063_atam__an
calamar1149293calamar__
calamari1246123calamar_i
calamaris1346083calamaris
calamars1238133calamar_s
calamary1545463calamar_y
calamata1247553calamata_
calamatas1345783calamatas
caracara1247253caracara_
caracaras1346863caracaras
cateran9313773cat__eran
patamar1147093patamar__
patamars1246843patamar_s
tamarao977593__tamarao
tamarau9107063__tamarau
tamarin9311913__tamarin

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 Filter1786911486410.423422437.4
2DLD Change Limit148641186.50022867.8
3Display Results18180.000 
 (SQL Overall)178691186.92325811.2