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

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

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
geothermal	16	5	301	(None)
exothermal	22	7	334	2	exothermal
geothermally	21	6	151	2	geothermally
isothermal	15	5	276	2	isothermal
aethereal	12	4	459	3	ae_thereal
ethereal	11	4	678	3	_e_thereal
hypothermal	24	5	390	3	hypothermal
isotheral	12	5	410	3	isother_al
nonthermal	15	5	434	3	nonthermal
stenothermal	17	7	165	3	stenothermal
thermal	12	50	1097	3	___thermal
weatherman	18	5	424	3	weatherman

Search took 7 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	140603	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	12	5.626	24991.6
3	Display Results	12	12	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	6.049	29540.6