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

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

14 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
hexastich	24	4	334	(None)
hexastichs	25	4	182	1	hexastichs
hemistich	19	4	607	2	hemistich
elastic	9	30	1339	3	_elastic_
elastics	10	27	1088	3	_elastics
hematic	14	18	1674	3	hema_tic_
hematics	15	17	1219	3	hema_tics
hemistichs	20	5	338	3	hemistichs
hemstitch	19	5	268	3	he_mstitch
hepatic	14	17	1277	3	hepa_tic_
hepatica	15	17	759	3	hepa_tica
hepatics	15	19	893	3	hepa_tics
hexadic	20	4	541	3	hexa_dic_
telestich	14	13	532	3	telestich

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	148641	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	14	7.410	20059.5
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	7.830	22821.3