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

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

25 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
joyless	17	22	651	(None)
jobless	16	23	756	1	jobless
toyless	10	26	871	1	toyless
bowless	12	33	1031	2	bowless
coxless	16	3	774	2	coxless
coyness	12	7	732	2	coyness
doyleys	14	38	492	2	doyleys
flyless	13	3	500	2	flyless
fogless	11	3	819	2	fogless
godless	9	3	840	2	godless
hoyles	12	3	1501	2	hoyle_s
jagless	15	3	710	2	jagless
jawless	17	4	565	2	jawless
joles	12	52	3083	2	jo_le_s
joules	13	41	1682	2	joule_s
joylessly	22	4	249	2	joylessly
juryless	18	3	298	2	juryless
keyless	14	3	616	2	keyless
rayless	10	23	900	2	rayless
rodless	8	3	1007	2	rodless
sonless	7	26	1261	2	sonless
toeless	7	26	1239	2	toeless
topless	9	25	1112	2	topless
vowless	13	24	660	2	vowless
wayless	13	30	824	2	wayless

Search took 5 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	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	25	4.670	23055.9
3	Display Results	25	25	0.016	1562.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	25	4.812	37134.5