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

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

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
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31 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
civics	13	39	782	(None)
civic	12	34	1254	1	civic_
civies	11	41	1644	1	civies
cavies	11	45	2500	2	cavies
cavils	11	40	1439	2	cavils
chics	12	39	2094	2	c_hics
chivies	15	34	1285	2	chivies
cilice	10	32	1335	2	cilice
cilices	11	38	1402	2	cilices
cimices	13	27	980	2	cimices
cities	8	45	2485	2	cities
civets	11	52	1254	2	civets
civicism	17	10	535	2	civicism
civie	10	37	1635	2	civi_e
civil	10	34	1193	2	civi_l
civism	13	3	724	2	civism
civisms	14	3	607	2	civisms
civvies	15	5	584	2	civvies
clinics	11	33	874	2	clinics
clitics	11	27	997	2	clitics
clivias	12	6	669	2	clivias
colics	10	42	1990	2	colics
comics	12	40	1556	2	comics
conics	10	39	2059	2	conics
covins	11	46	1806	2	covins
critics	11	28	1109	2	critics
cubics	12	38	1016	2	cubics
cynics	13	37	736	2	cynics
ivies	8	42	1576	2	_ivies
mimics	12	8	936	2	mimics
silvics	12	3	556	2	silvics

Search took 10 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	0.233	766914.2
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	31	8.673	9518.2
3	Display Results	31	31	0.016	1937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	31	8.922	20028.1