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

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

16 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
myelencephala	25	9	172	(None)
mesencephala	21	7	240	2	m_esencephala
metencephala	21	7	243	2	m_etencephala
myelencephalic	28	8	203	2	myelencephalic
myelencephalon	26	8	160	2	myelencephalon
telencephala	19	7	249	2	_telencephala
diencephala	19	6	245	4	__diencephala
encephala	16	5	388	4	____encephala
mesencephalic	24	7	259	4	m_esencephalic
mesencephalon	22	7	228	4	m_esencephalon
metencephalic	24	7	281	4	m_etencephalic
metencephalon	22	7	240	4	m_etencephalon
prosencephala	22	7	170	4	prosencephala
rhinencephala	23	9	192	4	rhinencephala
telencephalic	22	7	273	4	_telencephalic
telencephalon	20	7	220	4	_telencephalon

Search took 5 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	95024	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	16	4.436	21421.1
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	4.812	37134.5