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

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

22 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
mothball	15	4	389	(None)
mothballs	16	4	392	1	mothballs
mothballed	18	5	188	2	mothballed
boxball	18	15	532	3	bo_xball
cornball	12	4	705	3	cornball
enthrall	11	26	683	3	enthrall
foosball	13	4	408	3	foosball
football	13	4	561	3	football
forkball	17	4	482	3	forkball
goofball	14	4	327	3	goofball
highball	17	4	389	3	highball
inthrall	11	24	706	3	inthrall
lowball	12	7	550	3	lo_wball
meatball	12	4	451	3	meatball
methylal	16	4	427	3	methylal
mothballing	19	5	231	3	mothball~~ing~~
motherly	16	34	609	3	motherly
oddball	11	4	377	3	_oddball
pushball	15	4	331	3	pushball
softball	13	4	420	3	softball
sourball	10	4	536	3	sourball
thrall	9	38	1029	3	__thrall

Search took 8 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	146162	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	146162	22	7.516	19446.8
3	Display Results	22	22	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	22	7.939	22508.0