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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “agitation” 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
agitation	10	3	1122	(None)
agitations	11	3	1006	1	agitations
agitating	11	3	886	2	agitating
agitational	12	4	484	2	agitational
agitative	13	4	687	2	agitative
agitato	8	5	657	2	agitat_o_
agitator	9	4	671	2	agitat_or
agnation	9	3	1172	2	ag_nation
animation	11	3	1368	2	animation
aviation	11	3	1274	2	avi_ation
capitation	14	3	1136	2	capitation
cavitation	15	4	913	2	cavitation
citation	10	3	1436	2	_citation
cogitation	13	4	1008	2	cogitation
habitation	15	4	791	2	habitation
imitation	11	5	1085	2	imitation
pagination	13	4	899	2	pagination
sanitation	10	4	1204	2	sanitation

Search took 5 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	121436	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	18	3.686	32945.2
3	Display Results	18	18	0.013	1384.6
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	4.075	43850.6