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

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

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.

15 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
hungry	13	3	497	(None)
angry	9	3	1087	2	_angry
dungy	10	47	1364	2	dung_y
henry	11	40	1447	2	hen_ry
hung	8	61	2635	2	hung__
hunger	10	40	1520	2	hunger
hungers	11	40	1330	2	hungers
hungrily	15	6	305	2	hungrily
hunkey	16	42	1088	2	hunkey
hunky	15	54	1773	2	hun_ky
hurry	11	49	1718	2	hu_rry
jungly	17	40	769	2	jungly
puggry	13	37	482	2	puggry
sundry	10	5	794	2	sundry
unary	8	3	1599	2	_unary

Search took 3 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	82551	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	15	2.313	35690.0
3	Display Results	15	15	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	2.686	66526.8