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

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

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
activate	13	5	1037	(None)
activated	15	6	788	1	activated
activates	14	4	968	1	activates
acervate	13	3	698	2	acervate
activator	14	4	644	2	activator
active	11	3	1374	2	activ__e
activity	16	4	758	2	activity
activize	22	4	661	2	activize
actuate	9	3	1144	2	act_uate
aestivate	12	12	766	2	aestivate
captivate	16	4	592	2	captivate
deactivate	16	4	462	2	deactivate
estivate	11	10	1000	2	estivate
inactivate	15	4	569	2	inactivate
motivate	13	4	769	2	motivate
reactivate	15	4	584	2	reactivate
titivate	11	4	680	2	titivate

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	121059	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	17	3.360	36029.5
3	Display Results	17	17	0.013	1307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	3.796	47073.5