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

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

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20 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
colonized	21	27	1043	(None)
colonised	12	24	872	1	colonised
colonize	19	23	1277	1	colonize_
colonizer	20	30	928	1	colonizer
colonizes	20	26	1318	1	colonizes
colorized	21	22	1177	1	colorized
calorized	21	24	967	2	calorized
canonized	21	4	768	2	canonized
caponized	23	4	707	2	caponized
cognized	21	3	629	2	co_gnized
colonies	10	36	2001	2	coloni_es
colonise	10	25	1428	2	colonise_
colonises	11	28	1401	2	colonises
colonizers	21	28	672	2	colonizers
colorize	19	23	1420	2	colorize_
colorizer	20	24	1062	2	colorizer
colorizes	20	30	1452	2	colorizes
decolonized	24	5	482	2	decolonized
ozonized	17	4	511	2	_ozonized
recolonized	23	4	515	2	recolonized

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	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	20	3.813	31847.9
3	Display Results	20	20	0.016	1250.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	4.219	42353.9