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

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

19 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
pretaste	10	13	952	(None)
prepaste	12	13	908	1	prepaste
pretasted	12	14	796	1	pretasted
pretastes	11	11	942	1	pretastes
retaste	7	23	1313	1	_retaste
foretaste	12	9	586	2	foretaste
poetaster	11	4	567	2	poetaster
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
prepasted	14	13	766	2	prepasted
prepastes	13	12	882	2	prepastes
pretape	11	35	1162	2	preta_pe
pretest	9	5	1763	2	pretest_
pretested	12	14	911	2	pretested
pretests	10	3	1001	2	pretests
retasted	9	24	1211	2	_retasted
retastes	8	22	1290	2	_retastes

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	121059	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	19	3.266	37066.4
3	Display Results	19	19	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	3.422	52218.3