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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “prepaste” 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
prepaste	12	13	908	(None)
prepasted	14	13	767	1	prepasted
prepastes	13	12	882	1	prepastes
pretaste	10	13	952	1	pretaste
precast	11	3	1485	2	precast_
precasts	12	3	945	2	precasts
predate	10	6	1689	2	preda_te
prelate	9	5	1969	2	prela_te
prepare	11	19	1362	2	prepa_re
prepave	14	22	887	2	prepa_ve
pretasted	12	14	796	2	pretasted
pretastes	11	11	942	2	pretastes
repast	8	35	2063	2	_repast_
repasted	11	26	1153	2	_repasted
repasts	9	36	1193	2	_repasts
retaste	7	23	1313	2	_retaste

Search took 5 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	121059	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	16	3.703	32692.1
3	Display Results	16	16	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	4.126	43308.5