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

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

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.

21 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
mothballs	16	4	392	(None)
mothball	15	4	389	1	mothball_
mothballed	18	5	188	2	mothballed
boxballs	19	14	423	3	bo_xballs
cornballs	13	4	631	3	cornballs
enthralls	12	25	613	3	enthralls
foosballs	14	4	402	3	foosballs
footballs	14	4	536	3	footballs
forkballs	18	4	425	3	forkballs
goofballs	15	4	302	3	goofballs
highballs	18	4	364	3	highballs
inthralls	12	21	623	3	inthralls
lowballs	13	6	439	3	lo_wballs
meatballs	13	4	409	3	meatballs
methylals	17	4	368	3	methylals
mothballing	19	5	231	3	mothballing
oddballs	12	4	296	3	_oddballs
pushballs	16	4	315	3	pushballs
softballs	14	4	377	3	softballs
sourballs	11	4	523	3	sourballs
thralls	10	29	904	3	__thralls

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	148641	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	21	6.313	23545.2
3	Display Results	21	21	0.016	1312.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	6.749	26476.7