Dictionary Search Results using Damerau-Levenshtein distance in T-SQL

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “affirm” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3]

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
Check this box to automatically increase the Change Limit after seconds.

18 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 Word	Scrabble Score	Searched Previously	Found Previously	Changes	To Transform to your Word
affirm	14	3	552	(None)
affirms	15	3	438	1	affirms
affair	12	3	435	2	affair_
affaire	13	4	446	2	affaire
affairs	13	3	416	2	affairs
affine	12	3	1050	2	affine
affirmed	17	4	321	2	affirmed
affirmer	16	4	308	2	affirmer
affix	18	3	600	2	affi_x
afford	13	4	649	2	afford
afire	8	62	1591	2	a_fire
firm	9	60	2645	2	__firm
infirm	11	3	704	2	infirm
kaffir	16	34	530	2	kaffir_
kaffirs	17	32	555	2	kaffirs
reaffirm	16	4	248	2	reaffirm
zaffir	21	39	551	2	zaffir_
zaffirs	22	37	566	2	zaffirs

Search took 3 seconds overall (including website activity, plus SQL activity in the following phases):

Length Filter: Limit the application of DLD to words with length difference of no more than the Change Limit.
DLD Change Limit: Apply DLD to each remaining word, limiting each comparison according to the Change Limit.
Display Results: Return the results, with similar words marked up to highlight differences.

Seq	Search Phase	Words Checked	Words Matched	Seconds	Words Per Sec
1	Length Filter	178691	82551	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	18	2.533	32590.2
3	Display Results	18	18	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	2.893	61766.7