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

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

15 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
telephonist	16	9	496	(None)
telephonists	17	9	331	1	telephonists
telephones	15	4	569	2	telephones_
telephonic	17	5	476	2	telephoni_c
telephonies	16	5	490	2	telephonies
telephoning	17	5	323	2	telephoning
teleologist	12	4	938	3	teleologist
telephone	14	4	564	3	telephon__e
telephoned	16	5	402	3	telephon_ed
telephoner	15	5	404	3	telephon_er
telephoners	16	5	332	3	telephoners
telephony	17	4	386	3	telephon__y
telephotos	15	5	261	3	telephotos_
telethons	12	4	602	3	telethon_s_
xylophonist	26	5	336	3	xylophonist

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	121633	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121633	15	5.203	23377.5
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	5.609	31857.9