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

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

20 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
legislators	12	7	305	(None)
legislator	11	6	285	1	legislator_
legislates	11	6	441	2	legislat_es
legislations	13	4	375	2	legislations
legislature	12	5	144	2	legislature
legislatures	13	6	143	2	legislatures
depilators	13	4	733	3	depi_lators
epilators	11	4	943	3	_epi_lators
legators	9	28	1103	3	leg___ators
legislate	10	8	467	3	legislat__e
legislated	12	6	358	3	legislat_ed
legislating	13	4	341	3	legislating
legislation	12	4	428	3	legislation
legislative	15	5	267	3	legislative
legislatives	16	5	172	3	legislatives
legislatorial	14	6	127	3	legislatorial
legislatorship	20	7	108	3	legislators~~hip~~
legitimators	15	5	340	3	legitimators
levitators	13	4	540	3	levi_tators
regulators	11	4	650	3	reg_ulators

Search took 6 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	121633	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	121633	20	4.810	25287.5
3	Display Results	20	20	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	5.186	34456.4