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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “merchandisers” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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.

18 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
merchandisers	21	6	131	(None)
merchandiser	20	6	192	1	merchandiser_
merchandises	20	7	289	1	merchandise_s
merchandise	19	5	285	2	merchandise__
merchandised	21	5	214	2	merchandise_d
merchandizes	29	5	266	2	merchandize_s
mechanizers	27	5	353	3	me_chan_izers
merchandising	22	6	181	3	merchandising
merchandisings	23	7	104	3	merchandisings
merchandize	28	5	268	3	merchandize__
merchandized	30	5	231	3	merchandize_d
mechanisms	19	4	572	4	me_chan_is_ms
mechanists	17	4	589	4	me_chan_is_ts
mechanizer	26	4	504	4	me_chan_izer_
mechanizes	26	4	677	4	me_chan_ize_s
merchandizing	31	6	228	4	merchandizing
merchandizings	32	6	117	4	merchandizings
mergansers	13	4	224	4	mer_gan__sers

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	95024	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	18	5.436	17480.5
3	Display Results	18	18	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	5.812	30745.2