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

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

25 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
wastage	11	10	925	(None)
waftage	14	11	532	1	waftage
wantage	11	11	962	1	wantage
wastages	12	10	975	1	wastages
wattage	11	8	698	1	wattage
cartage	10	3	1259	2	cartage
hastate	10	3	1391	2	hastate
hostage	11	31	1123	2	hostage
massage	10	3	989	2	massage
onstage	8	3	836	2	onstage
passage	10	3	980	2	passage
postage	10	32	1485	2	postage
restage	8	33	1619	2	restage
stage	6	53	3019	2	__stage
upstage	10	16	744	2	upstage
vantage	11	10	989	2	vantage
waftages	15	10	539	2	waftages
wantages	12	10	902	2	wantages
warpage	13	3	640	2	warpage
wastable	13	14	1045	2	wastable
waste	8	61	2505	2	wast__e
wastrie	10	12	1030	2	wastrie
watape	11	20	848	2	wa_tape
wattages	12	10	678	2	wattages
wattape	12	13	538	2	wattape

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	107671	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	25	2.923	36835.8
3	Display Results	25	25	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	25	3.296	54214.5