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

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

23 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
climates	12	3	1197	(None)
climate	11	3	1283	1	climate_
climaxes	19	4	461	1	climaxes
acclimates	16	4	591	2	acclimates
animates	10	13	1642	2	animates
califates	14	3	1011	2	califates
celibates	13	5	863	2	celibates
cellmates	13	4	751	2	cellmates
ciliates	10	4	1345	2	ciliates
clematis	12	4	865	2	clematis
climatal	12	4	440	2	climatal
climatic	14	4	873	2	climatic
climatizes	23	11	613	2	climatizes
climaxed	20	4	311	2	climaxed
climes	10	47	2000	2	clim__es
coinmates	13	4	834	2	coinmates
collimates	14	4	797	2	collimates
comates	11	41	2364	2	c_omates
cremates	12	42	1600	2	cremates
ligates	8	23	1838	2	_ligates
limites	9	29	1545	2	_limites
primates	12	15	1593	2	primates
ultimates	11	4	843	2	ultimates

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	121059	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	23	3.156	38358.4
3	Display Results	23	23	0.016	1437.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	3.562	50165.9