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

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

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64 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
devastative	18	5	343	(None)
devastate	13	4	495	2	devastat__e
devastating	16	4	470	2	devastating
devastation	15	4	673	2	devastation
denotative	14	5	672	3	de_notative
devastated	15	4	412	3	devastat_ed
devastates	14	4	466	3	devastat_es
devastations	16	4	582	3	devastations
devastator	14	5	314	3	devastat_or
devastators	15	5	292	3	devastators
deverbative	20	5	362	3	deverbative
deviative	16	4	772	3	dev__iative
evacuative	18	4	373	3	_evacuative
evaluative	16	4	423	3	_evaluative
gestative	13	4	730	3	ge__stative
adversative	18	5	324	4	advers_ative
astatine	8	3	1353	4	___astatine
constative	15	4	1010	4	_constative
decantation	14	4	894	4	decantation
declarative	17	5	432	4	declarative
decorative	16	4	892	4	de_corative
deformative	20	4	497	4	deformative
degradative	17	6	308	4	degradative
degustation	13	4	563	4	degustation
delineative	15	5	466	4	delineative
demonstrative	19	6	421	4	demonstrative
denigrative	16	5	548	4	denigrative
derivative	17	4	668	4	de_rivative
derogative	15	4	698	4	de_rogative
desiccative	19	5	394	4	desiccative
designative	16	5	433	4	designative
detestation	12	4	836	4	detestation
detonative	14	4	713	4	de_tonative
devaluate	13	22	636	4	devaluat__e
devaluating	16	4	505	4	devaluating
devaluation	15	4	707	4	devaluation
devastatingly	21	7	136	4	devastatingly
deverbatives	21	5	217	4	deverbatives
devitalize	23	10	765	4	dev_italize
diastatic	12	4	594	4	d_iastati_c
emanative	14	4	731	4	_ema_native
enstatite	9	4	619	4	_e_nstatite
evaporative	19	5	361	4	_evaporative
evasive	13	4	466	4	_evas___ive
evocative	17	4	629	4	_ev_ocative
excitative	22	4	502	4	_excitative
gravitative	18	5	297	4	gravitative
gustative	13	4	568	4	__gustative
legislative	15	5	267	4	legislative
lovastatin	13	5	192	4	lovastati_n
lovastatins	14	5	166	4	lovastatins
meditative	16	4	628	4	me_ditative
metastasize	22	9	237	4	metastasize
metastatic	14	5	522	4	metastati_c
preventative	20	5	431	4	preventative
rebarbative	18	5	289	4	rebarbative
recitative	15	4	818	4	re_citative
reparative	15	4	817	4	repa_rative
retaliative	14	5	498	4	retaliative
separative	15	4	697	4	sepa_rative
stative	10	26	1293	4	____stative
tentative	12	4	781	4	te__ntative
vasoactive	18	5	247	4	__vasoactive
vegetative	17	4	457	4	ve_getative

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	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	148819	64	8.783	16944.0
3	Display Results	64	64	0.030	2133.3
	(SQL Overall)	178691	64	9.233	19353.5