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 “retally” 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.

38 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
retally1041368(None) 
really93315611re_ally
rectally1339711rectally
regally1159871regally
retrally11310521retrally
areally10411242are_ally
brutally1345742brutally
cecally1459392cecally
dentally121110062dentally
fatally1339892fatally
festally1437542festally
leally94012612le_ally
legally1138132legally
lethally1445922lethally
mentally131010402mentally
mesally12119792mesally
penally121111762penally
rally84725902r__ally
ratably121711512ratably
realty92713692re_alty
recall83815722recall_
recalls92613622recalls
refall94314392refall_
refalls103312242refalls
retable91820402retable
retail65522072retail_
retails74718972retails
retell63813642retell_
retells73211522retells
ritually1167482ritually
royally13157732royally
rurally1038302rurally
tally84526862__tally
totally1039892totally
trevally1446342trevally
venally13119562venally
vestally1437412vestally
vitally1339672vitally

Search took 4 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 Filter1786911076710.1231452772.4
2DLD Change Limit107671382.97036252.9
3Display Results38380.0162375.0
 (SQL Overall)178691383.10957475.4
 
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.