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

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

(Change Limit cannot be increased to the length of your word, because then every letter could be different!)
Check this box to automatically increase the Change Limit after seconds.

21 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
ion	3	60	5102	(None)
cion	6	133	3091	1	cion
con	5	102	6802	1	con
don	4	67	5765	1	don
eon	3	60	5208	1	eon
fon	6	63	5227	1	fon
hon	6	77	5938	1	hon
icon	6	69	2204	1	icon
ikon	8	58	1495	1	ikon
in	2	81	5086	1	i_n
inn	3	67	2743	1	inn
ions	4	67	3785	1	ions
iron	4	67	2846	1	iron
lion	4	63	3444	1	lion
mon	5	75	6157	1	mon
on	2	80	5718	1	_on
pion	6	72	3529	1	pion
son	3	77	6195	1	son
ton	3	102	6510	1	ton
won	6	62	5206	1	won
yon	6	73	4895	1	yon

Search took 1 second 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	5146	0.263	679433.5
2	DLD Change Limit	5146	21	0.093	55333.3
3	Display Results	21	21	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	0.356	501941.0