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 “positively” 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.

35 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
positively184545(None) 
appositively2252762appositively
costively1746352cos_tively
positive1349992positive__
positiver1445482positive_r
positives1459172positive_s
positivest1544902positivest
positivity1854582positivity
punitively18124822punitively
additively1853433additively
cognitively2053253cognitively
festively1845773fes_tively
fugitively2053193fugitively
hostilely1543313hos_tilely
lenitively1644693lenitively
optatively1864643optatively
partitively1954143partitively
passively1744613pas_sively
plaintively1952983plaintively
politely1347093polit__ely
politicly1644793politi_cly
positivism1754233positivism
positivist1565683positivist
prepositively2352803prepositively
primitively2154243primitively
pristinely1544793pristinely
putatively1845063putatively
resistively1745033resistively
restively1548313res_tively
rotatively1645403rotatively
sensitively1754993sensitively
sportively1845023spo_rtively
unitively1586173_unitively
vocatively2144473vocatively
votively1744193vo__tively

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 Filter1786911406030.403443402.0
2DLD Change Limit140603355.87623928.4
3Display Results35350.0162187.5
 (SQL Overall)178691356.29528386.2
 
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.