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

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

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82 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
sickle	12	44	1832	(None)
fickle	15	39	1297	1	fickle
mickle	14	37	1513	1	mickle
nickle	12	38	1448	1	nickle
pickle	14	42	1565	1	pickle
sickee	12	46	2222	1	sickee
sickie	12	37	1574	1	sickie
sickled	14	47	1343	1	sickled
sickles	13	34	1754	1	sickles
sickly	15	31	1048	1	sickly
stickle	13	24	1097	1	stickle
suckle	12	40	1596	1	suckle
tickle	12	46	1674	1	tickle
brickle	15	27	993	2	brickle
buckle	14	48	1519	2	buckle
cackle	14	34	1692	2	cackle
cicale	10	3	1450	2	cicale
cockle	14	39	1357	2	cockle
deckle	13	120	1245	2	deckle
dickie	13	39	1311	2	dickie
fickler	16	34	842	2	fickler
fickly	18	31	853	2	fickly
hackle	15	49	1681	2	hackle
heckle	15	31	1209	2	heckle
hickie	15	38	1247	2	hickie
huckle	15	39	1307	2	huckle
inkle	9	45	1583	2	_inkle
keckle	11	35	942	2	keckle
mackle	14	37	1643	2	mackle
mickler	15	33	1023	2	mickler
mickles	15	34	1500	2	mickles
muckle	14	34	1358	2	muckle
nickel	12	38	1134	2	nickel
nickled	14	40	1044	2	nickled
nickles	13	37	1382	2	nickles
pickled	16	40	1188	2	pickled
pickles	15	32	1544	2	pickles
prickle	15	36	1101	2	prickle
rackle	12	39	1729	2	rackle
ruckle	12	44	1458	2	ruckle
scale	7	46	2914	2	s_cale
shackle	16	40	954	2	shackle
sice	6	55	4560	2	sic__e
sick	10	64	3558	2	sick__
sickbed	16	39	682	2	sickbed
sicked	13	45	2440	2	sicked
sickees	13	45	1421	2	sickees
sicken	12	46	1525	2	sicken
sicker	12	40	2390	2	sicker
sickies	13	37	1750	2	sickies
sicklied	15	4	658	2	sicklied
sicklier	14	5	721	2	sicklier
sicklies	14	7	1001	2	sicklies
sicko	11	53	1539	2	sick_o
sickos	12	51	1203	2	sickos
sicks	11	51	2762	2	sick_s
sidle	6	51	2404	2	si_dle
sike	8	71	3879	2	si_k_e
silkie	10	33	1340	2	silkie
simile	8	31	1563	2	simile
simple	10	43	1517	2	simple
single	7	45	2060	2	single
sizzle	14	30	961	2	sizzle
slickly	16	3	585	2	slickly
socle	7	4	1957	2	soc_le
spackle	15	36	957	2	spackle
speckle	15	29	755	2	speckle
spicule	11	26	993	2	spicule
stickled	15	29	897	2	stickled
stickler	14	25	957	2	stickler
stickles	14	25	1210	2	stickles
strickle	14	6	779	2	strickle
suckled	14	42	1251	2	suckled
suckler	13	34	1310	2	suckler
suckles	13	45	1674	2	suckles
tackle	12	38	1573	2	tackle
tickled	14	43	1313	2	tickled
tickler	13	36	1265	2	tickler
tickles	13	34	1685	2	tickles
tinkle	10	37	1445	2	tinkle
trickle	13	36	1344	2	trickle
winkle	13	38	1283	2	winkle

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	82551	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	82	2.733	30205.3
3	Display Results	82	82	0.033	2484.8
	(SQL Overall)	178691	82	3.109	57475.4