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

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

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43 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
hortative	15	4	643	(None)
portative	14	4	937	1	portative
exhortative	24	5	305	2	exhortative
formative	17	4	796	2	formative
hortatively	20	5	405	2	hortatively
normative	14	4	889	2	normative
optative	13	4	765	2	_optative
rotative	11	3	1034	2	ro_tative
agitative	13	4	687	3	agitative
assortative	14	7	395	3	assortative
cogitative	16	4	593	3	cogitative
combative	18	4	721	3	combative
conative	13	12	1462	3	co_native
constative	15	4	1010	3	constative
corrasive	14	4	506	3	corrasive
creative	13	28	1280	3	_creative
curative	13	3	1040	3	cur_ative
donative	12	13	987	3	do_native
durative	12	3	907	3	dur_ative
ergative	12	3	897	3	_ergative
forgetive	16	12	446	3	forgetive
formatives	18	4	621	3	formatives
fortalice	14	4	577	3	fortalice
gestative	13	4	730	3	gestative
gustative	13	4	568	3	gustative
hortatory	15	4	474	3	hortatory
hottie	9	25	1438	3	ho_t_ti_e
imitative	14	4	633	3	imitative
irritative	13	4	520	3	irritative
locative	13	3	868	3	lo_cative
mutative	13	4	828	3	_mutative
narrative	12	4	737	3	narrative
nonnative	12	4	834	3	nonnative
optatives	14	4	520	3	_optatives
orective	13	3	935	3	_orective
partitive	14	4	737	3	partitive
probative	16	4	917	3	probative
purgative	15	4	528	3	purgative
putative	13	4	837	3	_putative
sorptive	13	4	647	3	sor_ptive
stative	10	26	1293	3	__stative
tentative	12	4	781	3	tentative
vocative	16	3	791	3	vo_cative

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	148641	0.453	394461.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	43	7.406	20070.3
3	Display Results	43	43	0.013	3307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	43	7.872	22699.6