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

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

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.

17 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
medicants	14	6	678	(None)
mediants	11	29	949	1	medi_ants
medicant	13	9	1082	1	medicant_
mendicants	15	5	394	1	mendicants
indicants	12	4	720	2	indicants
medians	10	32	1421	2	medi_an_s
mediant	10	35	1670	2	medi_ant_
medicaids	15	4	400	2	medicaids
medicals	13	4	936	2	medica_ls
medicaments	18	5	371	2	medicaments
medicares	14	4	687	2	medicares
medicate	13	5	1324	2	medica_te
medicates	14	3	1211	2	medicates
medicines	14	4	790	2	medicines
mendicant	14	6	653	2	mendicant_
predicants	15	4	606	2	predicants
vesicants	14	4	475	2	vesicants

Search took 4 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	121436	0.143	1249587.4
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	17	3.796	31990.5
3	Display Results	17	17	0.013	1307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	3.952	45215.3