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

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

17 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
academician	18	6	163	(None)
academicians	19	6	138	1	academicians
academical	17	5	358	2	academic_al
academicism	20	5	198	2	academicism
academia	13	4	511	3	academ__ia_
academias	14	4	479	3	academ__ias
academic	15	4	472	3	academic___
academicisms	21	7	185	3	academicisms
academics	16	4	353	3	academic__s
academically	22	5	372	4	academically
academies	14	4	468	4	academ__ies
academism	16	6	324	4	academ__ism
academisms	17	5	273	4	academi_sms
acidemia	13	4	478	4	acidem__ia_
acidemias	14	4	450	4	acidem__ias
acoustician	15	5	281	4	acoustician
caecilian	13	4	401	4	_ca_ecilian

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	17	9.440	15764.7
3	Display Results	17	17	0.016	1062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	9.906	18038.7