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

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

21 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
shareware	15	4	433	(None)
sharewares	16	4	403	1	sharewares
hardware	15	4	628	2	_hardware
shoreward	16	4	409	2	shoreward
agateware	13	5	224	3	agateware
bakeware	17	4	548	3	_bakeware
barware	12	6	1070	3	_bar_ware
caneware	13	4	780	3	_caneware
hardwares	16	4	656	3	_hardwares
hardwire	15	4	462	3	_hardwire
seaware	10	4	963	3	sea__ware
shapewear	17	4	175	3	shapewear_
shareable	14	3	673	3	shareable
sharer	9	50	2548	3	share__r_
sharers	10	47	2062	3	share__rs
shorewards	17	4	359	3	shorewards
shortwave	18	4	248	3	shortwave
shrewder	15	3	440	3	sh_rewder
shrewdie	15	4	299	3	sh_rewdie
spaceward	17	4	307	3	spaceward
stoneware	12	5	429	3	stoneware

Search took 7 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	148641	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	21	6.436	23095.2
3	Display Results	21	21	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	6.842	26116.8