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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “malnutrition” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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.

14 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
malnutrition	14	13	200	(None)
malnutritions	15	10	186	1	malnutritions
nutrition	9	6	673	3	___nutrition
attrition	9	6	696	4	_a__ttrition
contrition	12	4	1141	4	_con_trition
elutriation	11	4	671	4	_el_utriation
malfunction	18	5	280	4	malfu_nction
malposition	15	5	396	4	mal_position
maturation	12	4	951	4	ma_tu_ration
micturition	15	13	335	4	mictu_rition
nutritions	10	6	651	4	___nutritions
overnutrition	16	6	338	4	overnutrition
parturition	13	5	417	4	partu_rition
salutation	10	4	890	4	sal_ut_ation

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	124790	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	124790	14	6.390	19529.0
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	6.813	26227.9