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

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

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81 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
materials	11	5	1081	(None)
material	10	3	1411	1	material_
materiels	11	4	784	1	materiels
aerials	7	40	1756	2	_a_erials
arterials	9	4	973	2	arterials
bacterials	14	4	635	2	bacterials
laterals	8	3	1275	2	later_als
materialise	13	4	784	2	materialise
materialism	15	4	827	2	materialism
materialist	13	4	952	2	materialist
materially	15	4	801	2	materially
materiel	10	3	1126	2	materiel_
maternal	10	4	780	2	maternal_
aerial	6	46	2571	3	_a_erial_
arterial	8	3	1365	3	arterial_
asterias	8	3	1704	3	asteria_s
atrial	6	54	1894	3	_at_rial_
bacterial	13	4	837	3	bacterial_
bacterias	13	4	930	3	bacteria_s
biomaterials	16	6	216	3	~~bio~~materials
caterans	10	3	1322	3	cater_ans
caterwauls	15	5	259	3	caterwauls
eateries	8	3	2432	3	eateri_es
eternals	8	23	895	3	_eternals
externals	16	6	662	3	externals
factorials	15	4	471	3	factorials
hatterias	12	5	876	3	hatteria_s
immaterial	14	5	414	3	immaterial_
imperials	13	4	734	3	imperials
internals	9	7	1273	3	internals
intervals	12	8	1015	3	intervals
lateral	7	3	1357	3	later_al_
laterites	9	7	1508	3	laterites
laterizes	18	5	1303	3	laterizes
latrias	7	19	1321	3	lat_ria_s
literals	8	3	1229	3	liter_als
madeiras	11	4	477	3	madeira_s
maderizes	21	4	895	3	maderizes
madrigals	13	85	625	3	ma_drigals
malarial	10	4	1061	3	malarial_
malarias	10	3	1377	3	malaria_s
mandrills	12	4	545	3	mandrills
mandrils	11	3	849	3	mandri_ls
manorial	10	3	1108	3	manorial_
manurial	10	4	779	3	manurial_
masteries	11	10	1851	3	masteri_es
materialised	15	5	547	3	materialised
materialises	14	4	732	3	material~~ise~~s
materialisms	16	5	730	3	material~~ism~~s
materialists	14	5	698	3	material~~ist~~s
materiality	16	5	608	3	materiality
materialize	22	4	789	3	materialize
materializes	23	4	722	3	material~~ize~~s
materialness	14	5	466	3	material~~nes~~s
maternally	15	4	576	3	maternally
maters	8	50	3239	3	mater___s
matrass	9	3	940	3	mat_r_ass
matrices	12	3	1208	3	mat_rices
matrixes	17	3	806	3	mat_rixes
mattrass	10	4	586	3	mattr_ass
mavericks	20	4	318	3	mavericks
medials	10	39	1474	3	m__edials
memorials	13	4	656	3	memorials
menials	9	40	1569	3	m__enials
minerals	10	3	1139	3	miner_als
mistrials	11	4	814	3	mistrials
naturals	8	4	790	3	natur_als
paternal	10	3	833	3	paternal_
pretrials	11	5	814	3	pretrials
retrials	8	5	1082	3	ret_rials
santerias	9	3	1186	3	santeria_s
serials	7	39	1975	3	__serials
tertials	8	5	1007	3	__tertials
trials	6	43	1988	3	__t_rials
tutorials	9	4	513	3	tutorials
valerians	12	4	534	3	valerians
waterfall	15	4	458	3	waterfall
waterfalls	16	4	476	3	waterfalls
waterily	14	3	879	3	wateri_ly
waterings	13	22	926	3	waterings
waterways	18	4	509	3	waterways

Search took 9 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	0.856	208751.2
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	81	7.643	19448.0
3	Display Results	81	81	0.046	1760.9
	(SQL Overall)	178691	81	8.545	20911.8