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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “buildings” 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.

15 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
buildings	13	3	425	(None)
building	12	3	750	1	building_
abuilding	13	4	356	2	abuilding_
biddings	13	39	756	2	b_iddings
billings	11	34	1263	2	b_illings
bindings	12	38	1047	2	b_indings
birdings	12	37	882	2	b_irdings
buddings	13	32	665	2	bu_ddings
bullrings	12	31	462	2	bullrings
bundlings	13	23	556	2	bundlings
gildings	11	35	697	2	_gildings
hildings	13	34	750	2	_hildings
quillings	19	22	574	2	quillings
quiltings	19	21	468	2	quiltings
wildings	13	28	793	2	_wildings

Search took 4 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	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	15	3.220	37713.0
3	Display Results	15	15	0.013	1153.8
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	3.639	49104.4