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

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

16 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
drouthy	14	39	517	(None)
drouth	10	44	1010	1	drouth_
drouths	11	43	648	1	drouths
brothy	14	51	962	2	bro_thy
doughy	14	49	984	2	d_oughy
drought	12	25	887	2	drought
droughty	16	30	447	2	droughty
frothy	15	57	837	2	fro_thy
grouchy	16	29	424	2	grouchy
grouty	10	47	1098	2	grout_y
growthy	17	7	328	2	growthy
mouthy	14	40	906	2	_mouthy
roughy	13	70	1085	2	_roughy
routh	8	64	2307	2	_routh_
rouths	9	54	1682	2	_rouths
trouty	9	52	1179	2	trout_y

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	107671	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	16	4.516	23842.1
3	Display Results	16	16	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	4.889	36549.6