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

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

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
piaffer	15	10	444	(None)
piaffe	14	9	491	1	piaffe_
piaffed	16	9	375	1	piaffed
piaffers	16	11	420	1	piaffers
piaffes	15	11	505	1	piaffes
chaffer	18	38	947	2	chaffer
differ	13	39	1084	2	di_ffer
gaffer	13	43	1013	2	_gaffer
niffer	12	37	844	2	ni_ffer
piaster	9	30	1288	2	piaster
pilfer	11	3	916	2	pi_lfer
proffer	15	12	693	2	proffer
puffer	14	46	1073	2	p_uffer
quaffer	22	3	513	2	quaffer
staffer	13	29	909	2	staffer
zaffer	21	39	715	2	_zaffer

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	107671	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	16	2.966	36301.8
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	3.358	53213.5