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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “townspeople” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

14 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
townspeople	18	6	104	(None)
newspeople	17	5	171	3	new_speople
dispeople	14	13	492	4	__dispeople
downslope	15	5	302	4	downs_lop_e
outpeople	13	4	315	4	_o_utpeople
overpeople	17	4	421	4	_overpeople
salespeople	15	6	124	4	salespeople
spokespeople	19	7	77	4	spokespeople
townscape	16	5	295	4	towns_cap_e
townsfolk	19	5	144	4	towns_fo_lk
tradespeople	17	6	78	4	tradespeople
tribespeople	18	10	82	4	tribespeople
unpeople	12	4	447	4	__un_people
workpeople	21	5	118	4	wo_rkpeople

Search took 10 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	148819	0.450	397091.1
2	DLD Change Limit	148819	14	9.143	16276.8
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	9.593	18627.2