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

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

23 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
drearies	9	23	1341	(None)
dearies	8	35	2627	1	d_earies
drearier	9	29	792	1	drearier
dreariest	10	22	912	1	dreariest
dataries	9	3	1403	2	dataries
dearie	7	33	1981	2	d_earie_
decries	10	33	1980	2	d_ecries
derries	8	31	2462	2	d_erries
diaries	8	33	2195	2	d_iaries
dietaries	10	4	1066	2	dietaries
dreamier	11	28	729	2	dreamier
dreamiest	12	22	722	2	dreamiest
drearily	12	3	608	2	drearily
dreariness	11	4	628	2	dreariness
drears	7	46	1425	2	drear__s
friaries	11	3	1008	2	friaries
predries	11	27	1438	2	predries
readies	8	33	2471	2	_readies
redries	8	37	2171	2	_redries
refries	10	44	1973	2	_refries
retries	7	41	2907	2	_retries
treaties	8	3	1698	2	treaties
wearies	10	30	2022	2	_wearies

Search took 5 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	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	23	4.656	26000.6
3	Display Results	23	23	0.016	1437.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	4.828	37011.4