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

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

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
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21 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
hastate	10	3	1391	(None)
astute	6	3	1076	2	_astute
bistate	9	3	1382	2	bistate
caseate	9	3	1478	2	caseate
castrate	10	3	1386	2	castrate
costate	9	40	1927	2	costate
estate	6	47	1976	2	_estate
gestate	8	36	1407	2	gestate
hamate	11	33	1983	2	ha_mate
hastately	15	4	360	2	hastately
haste	8	59	2786	2	has__te
hesitate	11	6	997	2	hesitate
hostage	11	31	1123	2	hostage
instate	7	16	1648	2	instate
lactate	9	3	1270	2	lactate
restate	7	38	2488	2	restate
state	5	62	3733	2	__state
testate	7	39	1623	2	testate
unstate	7	19	1621	2	unstate
upstate	9	16	1049	2	upstate
wastage	11	10	925	2	wastage

Search took 4 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	107671	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	21	2.890	37256.4
3	Display Results	21	21	0.016	1312.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	3.279	54495.6