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

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

12 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
lichenologies	19	5	291	(None)
ichnologies	17	4	636	2	_ich_nologies
lichenologist	19	7	391	2	lichenologist
lichenologists	20	6	303	2	lichenologists
archeologies	18	4	500	3	arche_ologies
iconologies	14	4	709	3	_ic_onologies
lichenological	22	11	283	3	lichenological
lichenology	20	5	238	3	lichenolog__y
limnologies	14	4	553	3	li__mnologies
lithologies	15	4	683	3	lith__ologies
phenologies	17	4	935	3	__phenologies
technologies	18	4	597	3	tech_nologies

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	65874	0.310	576422.6
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	12	2.533	26006.3
3	Display Results	12	12	0.013	923.1
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	2.856	62566.9