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 “compliance” 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.

29 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
compliance184493(None) 
compliances1945031compliances
compliancy2153751compliancy
complaisance2061832complaisance
compliancies2053482compliancies
compliant1549662complian_t
complice1639332compli__ce
compline14313552compli_n_e
appliance1544493_appliance
competence1846723competence
complacence1853003complacence
complain1448763complain__
complained17175793complained
complainer1645693complainer
complains1549193complain_s
complaint15410253complain_t
complaints1646003complaints
complaisances2161713complaisances
compliantly2053833compliantly
complicacy2052783complicacy
complicate1847623complicate
complices1739253compli__ces
complin13312073compli_n__
complines15312833compli_nes
complins14313113compli_n_s
coprince1447093co_pri_nce
covariance1753943covariance
noncompliance2162843noncompliance
suppliance1692833suppliance

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 Filter1786911406030.423422437.4
2DLD Change Limit140603297.04619955.0
3Display Results29290.0161812.5
 (SQL Overall)178691297.48523873.2
 
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.