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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “damselfishes” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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
damselfishes	21	5	124	(None)
damselfish	19	6	116	2	damselfish__
angelfishes	18	6	269	3	_angelfishes
damselflies	17	5	81	3	damself_lies
candlefishes	21	5	200	4	candlefishes
cavefishes	21	4	386	4	ca_ve_fishes
dealfishes	17	4	419	4	d__ealfishes
demolishes	16	8	490	4	dem_ol_ishes
devilfishes	21	5	199	4	d_evilfishes
disrelishes	15	5	342	4	disrel_ishes
embellishes	18	5	209	4	_embellishes
fallfishes	19	4	398	4	fa__llfishes
goosefishes	18	5	229	4	goose_fishes
jewelfishes	27	5	178	4	_jewelfishes
paddlefishes	22	5	134	4	paddlefishes
rosefishes	16	4	411	4	_rose_fishes
sablefishes	19	5	289	4	sable_fishes
sailfishes	16	4	464	4	sa__ilfishes

Search took 8 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	124790	0.140	1276364.3
2	DLD Change Limit	124790	18	7.296	17103.9
3	Display Results	18	18	0.016	1125.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	7.452	23978.9