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

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

12 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
politicos	13	28	708	(None)
politicks	17	27	684	1	politicks
politico	12	25	1001	1	politico_
politicoes	14	26	501	1	politicoes
politics	12	25	1381	1	politic_s
politic	11	29	1871	2	politic__
political	13	4	971	2	political
politicise	14	4	724	2	politicise
politick	16	28	933	2	politic_k
politicly	16	4	479	2	politicly
polities	10	27	2234	2	politi_es
porticos	12	3	837	2	po_rticos

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	121436	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	12	3.393	35790.2
3	Display Results	12	12	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	3.783	47235.3