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

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

15 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
federate	12	3	1088	(None)
federated	14	3	842	1	federated
federates	13	3	1015	1	federates
deaerate	9	3	1417	2	deaerate
derate	7	45	3123	2	__derate
federacy	17	4	424	2	federacy
federal	11	4	853	2	federa_l
federals	12	4	730	2	federals
federative	17	4	616	2	federative
federator	13	4	626	2	federator
ferrate	10	30	1404	2	fe_rrate
generate	9	3	1290	2	generate
moderate	11	7	1099	2	moderate
underate	9	9	1860	2	underate
venerate	11	3	1290	2	venerate

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	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	15	3.500	34588.3
3	Display Results	15	15	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	3.873	46137.6