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 fortelescope” 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.

21 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
telescope135506(None) 
telescoped1553641telescoped
telescopes1445201telescopes
telescopy1653011telescopy
telescopic1653302telescopic
telescopies1553842telescopies
teleshop1344712teleshop_
teleshops1444782teleshops
aeroscope1347683aeroscope
borescope1545403borescope
episcope1445833_episcope
fetoscope1655263fetoscope
kinescope1744183kinescope
periscope1546413periscope
stereoscope1554223stereoscope
telecom1146813tele_co_m
telecoms1246473tele_coms
telephone1445643telephone
telescoping1652603telescoping
teleshopped1952023teleshopped
teletype1394543tele_type

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 Limit148641216.39323250.6
3Display Results21210.0131615.4
 (SQL Overall)178691216.82926166.5