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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “librarians” 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
librarians	12	6	395	(None)
librarian	11	5	484	1	librarian_
cybrarians	17	5	253	2	cybrarians
libertarians	14	5	322	2	libertarians
libraries	11	4	699	2	librari_es
librations	12	14	906	2	librations
agrarians	10	4	579	3	_agrarians
barbarians	14	4	503	3	barbarians
cybrarian	16	4	326	3	cybrarian_
libations	11	25	1044	3	lib_ations
liberations	13	5	894	3	liberations
libertarian	13	5	333	3	libertarian_
librarianship	20	10	153	3	librarians~~hip~~
librating	12	3	905	3	librati_ng
libration	11	15	1016	3	libration_
lunarians	9	4	551	3	l_unarians
nonlibrarians	15	6	195	3	~~non~~librarians
sublibrarians	17	6	165	3	~~sub~~librarians
vibrations	15	15	737	3	vibrations

Search took 7 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	140603	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	19	6.280	22389.0
3	Display Results	19	19	0.016	1187.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	6.702	26662.3