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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “farthingales” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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.

12 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
farthingales	19	6	108	(None)
farthingale	18	5	101	1	farthingale_
martingales	14	5	266	2	mart_ingales
farthings	16	3	523	3	farthing___s
martingale	13	4	319	3	mart_ingale_
martingals	13	4	332	3	mart_ingal_s
earthenwares	18	6	175	4	earthenwares
earthinesses	15	4	582	4	earthinesses
farthing	15	3	807	4	farthing____
galingales	12	4	280	4	ga__lingales
martingal	12	4	406	4	mart_ingal__
nightingales	17	6	107	4	nightingales

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	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	124790	12	7.203	17324.7
3	Display Results	12	12	0.016	750.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	7.609	23484.2