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

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

26 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
expend	16	24	750	(None)
expand	16	23	657	1	expand
expends	17	21	708	1	expends
extend	14	26	752	1	extend
append	11	3	827	2	append
depend	10	35	1092	2	depend
emend	8	62	1489	2	e_mend
exceed	16	3	617	2	exceed
exed	12	54	2059	2	ex_e_d
expands	17	19	573	2	expands
expect	17	5	890	2	expect
expel	14	4	823	2	expe_l
expels	15	4	717	2	expels
expended	19	13	654	2	expended
expender	18	13	684	2	expender
expense	16	12	787	2	expense
expensed	18	12	641	2	expensed
expert	15	5	1535	2	expert
expound	17	4	437	2	expound
extends	15	22	711	2	extends
extent	13	27	1491	2	extent
impend	11	47	879	2	impend
pend	7	59	3453	2	__pend
perpend	12	25	935	2	perpend
spend	8	56	1933	2	_spend
upend	8	50	1104	2	_upend

Search took 3 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	0.330	541487.9
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	26	2.343	35233.0
3	Display Results	26	26	0.013	2000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	26	2.686	66526.8