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

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

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
investigation	17	5	408	(None)
investigations	18	5	372	1	investigations
instigation	12	4	924	2	in__stigation
investigating	18	5	334	2	investigating
investigational	19	6	193	2	investigational
investigative	20	6	263	2	investigative
investigator	16	5	276	2	investigat_or
reinvestigation	19	6	218	2	reinvestigation
infestation	14	4	704	3	infest__ation
instigations	13	4	824	3	in__stigations
investigate	15	10	430	3	investigat__e
investigated	17	11	391	3	investigat_ed
investigates	16	10	421	3	investigat_es
investigators	17	5	246	3	investigators
investigatory	20	6	223	3	investigatory

Search took 3 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	65874	0.326	548131.9
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	15	2.343	28115.2
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	2.685	66551.6