SQL & PL/SQL :: How To Find Nearest / Closest String For A Column Data

Quote: I have a table(table name is names) with column as name(varchar) . I have the following data for name column.

Miss
Mississ
Mississipp

I would like to find a nearest match for Mississippi, that means sql should return row that contains Mississipp( Row #3)

If I try to find nearest match for Mississirr then sql should return row that has column value Mississ (Row#2)
Is this possible ? Here is the code for table creation and data.

create table names (name varchar2(20));

insert into names values('Miss');
insert into names values('Mississ');
insert into names values('Mississipp');
commit;