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

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

18 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
philosophies	22	15	454	(None)
philosophes	21	13	443	1	philosoph_es
philosophise	22	16	413	1	philosophise
philosophises	23	14	415	1	philosophises
philosophizes	32	14	339	1	philosophizes
philosophe	20	10	377	2	philosoph_e_
philosopher	21	15	359	2	philosoph_er
philosophers	22	14	330	2	philosophers
philosophic	23	6	371	2	philosophi_c
philosophised	24	16	290	2	philosophised
philosophize	31	16	327	2	philosophize
philosophized	33	15	266	2	philosophized
philosophizer	32	16	261	2	philosophizer
philosophizers	33	16	196	2	philosophizers
philologies	17	4	720	3	philolo_gies
philosophical	25	6	259	3	philosophical
philosophy	23	13	305	3	philosoph__y
theosophies	19	8	444	3	th_eosophies

Search took 4 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	0.440	406115.9
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	18	3.453	27519.3
3	Display Results	18	18	0.013	1384.6
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	3.906	45747.8