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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “protestation” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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
protestation	14	5	636	(None)
protestations	15	5	581	1	protestations
attestation	11	4	518	3	_attestation
contestation	14	4	866	3	contestation
detestation	12	4	836	3	_detestation
forestation	14	4	700	3	_forestation
molestation	13	6	596	3	_molestation
potentiation	14	5	597	3	p_otentiation
presentation	14	4	899	3	presentation
progestational	17	6	275	3	progestational
prostration	13	4	1079	3	pro__stration
protection	14	5	1147	3	prote__ction
protonation	13	5	1043	3	prot_onation
restation	9	3	1691	3	_r__estation

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	95024	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	14	4.170	22787.5
3	Display Results	14	14	0.016	875.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	4.562	39169.4