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

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

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
repurchase	17	14	288	(None)
prepurchase	20	17	227	1	prepurchase
repurchased	19	14	236	1	repurchased
repurchases	18	14	292	1	repurchases
prepurchased	22	17	186	2	prepurchased
prepurchases	21	15	223	2	prepurchases
purchase	15	4	529	2	__purchase
purchased	17	4	359	3	__purchased
purchaser	16	4	337	3	__purchaser
purchases	16	4	563	3	__purchases
reductase	12	4	455	3	redu_ctase
repechage	17	4	342	3	rep_echage
rephrase	13	4	673	3	rephr__ase
replicase	13	4	480	3	replic_ase
repurchasing	20	5	196	3	repurchasing
repurpose	13	4	313	3	repur_pose

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	140603	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	16	5.640	24929.6
3	Display Results	16	16	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	5.796	30830.1