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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “mainline” 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
mainline	10	3	986	(None)
mainlined	12	5	435	1	mainlined
mainliner	11	4	467	1	mainliner
mainlines	11	3	851	1	mainlines
airline	7	3	1503	2	_airline
aniline	7	4	1847	2	_aniline
hairline	11	3	787	2	hairline
mailing	10	29	2334	2	mai_ling
mainland	11	4	521	2	mainland
mainliners	12	4	400	2	mainliners
maline	8	45	2908	2	ma__line
manlike	13	30	1278	2	ma_nlike
marline	9	33	2095	2	ma_rline
midline	10	23	1510	2	m_idline
milline	9	25	1911	2	m_illine

Search took 5 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	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	15	4.140	29241.3
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	4.546	39307.3