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

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

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.

21 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
competence	18	4	672	(None)
competences	19	5	637	1	competences
competency	21	5	504	1	competency
competencies	20	6	497	2	competencies
competent	15	4	1125	2	competen_t
incompetence	20	11	513	2	incompetence
appetence	15	4	499	3	_appetence
coherence	16	7	694	3	co_herence
commence	16	14	910	3	com__mence
compete	13	47	1655	3	compet___e
competed	15	41	1359	3	compete__d
competently	20	5	482	3	competently
competes	14	41	1724	3	compete__s
competing	16	37	1246	3	competin_g
complacence	18	5	300	3	complacence
compliance	18	4	493	3	compliance
conference	17	9	901	3	conference
corpulence	16	5	416	3	corpulence
impotence	15	4	579	3	_impotence
incompetences	21	15	452	3	incompetences
incompetency	23	12	384	3	incompetency

Search took 8 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	140603	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	21	6.766	20780.8
3	Display Results	21	21	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	7.172	24915.1