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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “legislatures” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

19 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
legislatures	13	6	143	(None)
legislature	12	5	144	1	legislature_
legislates	11	6	441	2	legislat__es
legislatives	16	5	172	2	legislatives
legislators	12	7	305	2	legislator_s
legislate	10	8	467	3	legislat__e_
legislated	12	6	358	3	legislat__ed
legislations	13	4	375	3	legislations
legislative	15	5	267	3	legislative_
legislator	11	6	285	3	legislator__
eglateres	10	4	444	4	_eg__lateres
filatures	12	4	585	4	__fi_latures
legislating	13	4	341	4	legislat_ing
legislation	12	4	428	4	legislat_ion
legislatively	20	6	204	4	legislatively
legislatorial	14	6	127	4	legislatorial
leisures	8	3	668	4	le_is___ures
ligatures	10	4	493	4	l__i_gatures
magistratures	16	6	128	4	magistratures

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	124790	0.413	432665.9
2	DLD Change Limit	124790	19	6.873	18156.6
3	Display Results	19	19	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	7.286	24525.3