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

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

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
thwack	18	3	421	(None)
thack	14	49	1517	1	th_ack
thwacks	19	5	361	1	thwacks
hack	13	51	3454	2	_h_ack
shack	14	53	2175	2	sh_ack
tack	10	65	3629	2	t__ack
thacks	15	43	1192	2	th_acks
thank	12	58	1780	2	th_ank
thick	14	56	1335	2	th_ick
thwacked	21	3	272	2	thwacked
thwacker	20	4	287	2	thwacker
thwart	12	3	1168	2	thwart
towsack	16	4	472	2	towsack
track	11	48	2301	2	t_rack
wack	13	53	3091	2	__wack
whack	17	48	1302	2	wh_ack

Search took 3 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	0.110	1624463.6
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	16	2.610	31628.7
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	2.736	65311.0