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

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

14 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
pilotfishes	19	6	213	(None)
pilotfish	17	4	260	2	pilotfish__
billfishes	18	4	425	3	bil_lfishes
blowfishes	21	4	346	3	_blowfishes
filefishes	19	4	448	3	fil_efishes
flatfishes	19	4	399	3	_flatfishes
killifishes	21	5	204	3	killifishes
lionfishes	16	4	354	3	li_onfishes
milkfishes	22	4	312	3	mil_kfishes
pigfishes	18	4	500	3	pi__gfishes
pinfishes	17	4	624	3	pi__nfishes
pipefishes	20	4	379	3	pi_pefishes
platyfishes	22	5	219	3	p_latyfishes
tilefishes	16	4	460	3	til_efishes

Search took 6 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	121633	0.393	454684.5
2	DLD Change Limit	121633	14	5.326	22837.6
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	5.719	31245.1