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

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

20 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
officious	17	6	387	(None)
officials	17	4	340	2	officials
officiously	22	5	421	2	officiously
delicious	12	4	671	3	delicious
efficacious	21	5	161	3	efficacious
judicious	19	4	375	3	judicious
malicious	13	4	604	3	malicious
oblivious	14	4	306	3	oblivious
officers	16	4	380	3	offic_ers
offices	15	3	624	3	offic__es
official	16	4	489	3	offici_al
officiant	17	4	506	3	officiant
officiants	18	5	342	3	officiants
officiary	20	5	232	3	officiary
officiate	17	4	416	3	officiate
officiates	18	4	369	3	officiates
officinal	17	4	354	3	officinal
officinals	18	5	253	3	officinals
silicious	11	4	643	3	silicious
vicious	12	3	949	3	__vicious

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	148641	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	20	7.030	21143.8
3	Display Results	20	20	0.016	1250.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	7.466	23934.0