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

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

(Change Limit cannot be increased to the length of your word, because then every letter could be different!)
Check this box to automatically increase the Change Limit after seconds.

30 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
pie	5	54	5740	(None)
die	4	67	5965	1	die
fie	6	71	5244	1	fie
gie	4	71	4954	1	gie
hie	6	76	5270	1	hie
lie	3	82	6452	1	lie
pe	4	76	4903	1	p_e
pee	5	60	6651	1	pee
pi	4	81	4536	1	pi_
pia	5	68	4803	1	pia
pic	7	60	4682	1	pic
pice	8	46	4109	1	pice
pied	7	50	3536	1	pied
pier	6	60	3529	1	pier
pies	6	69	4960	1	pies
pig	6	57	4497	1	pig
pike	10	63	3521	1	pike
pile	6	56	4969	1	pile
pin	5	70	6672	1	pin
pine	6	77	5571	1	pine
pip	7	80	5104	1	pip
pipe	8	64	3443	1	pipe
pis	5	63	6203	1	pis
pit	5	64	7192	1	pit
piu	5	66	3954	1	piu
pix	12	64	3793	1	pix
plie	6	51	2739	1	plie
pye	8	64	3250	1	pye
tie	3	65	5753	1	tie
vie	6	54	4763	1	vie

Search took 1 second 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	5146	0.046	3884587.0
2	DLD Change Limit	5146	30	0.093	55333.3
3	Display Results	30	30	0.016	1875.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	30	0.155	1152845.2