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

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

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.

7 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
herring	11	36	1588	(None)
erring	7	38	1648	1	_erring
hearing	11	33	2416	1	hearing
heiring	11	33	1290	1	heiring
herding	12	29	1512	1	herding
herrings	12	37	953	1	herrings
herrying	15	14	703	1	herrying

Search took 2 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	69583	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	69583	7	1.203	57841.2
3	Display Results	7	7	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	7	1.546	115582.8