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

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

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.

23 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
onwards	11	3	717	(None)
inwards	11	3	834	1	inwards
onward	10	3	905	1	onward_
awards	10	71	1345	2	_awards
cowards	13	3	961	2	cowards
downwards	17	4	383	2	downwards
forwards	15	3	704	2	forwards
innards	8	3	715	2	innards
inward	10	3	1033	2	inward_
manwards	14	4	761	2	manwards
moonwards	15	7	420	2	moonwards
nards	6	59	2846	2	_n_ards
nonwars	10	10	900	2	nonwar_s
nonwords	12	4	746	2	nonwords
outwards	12	9	912	2	outwards
poniards	11	4	582	2	poniards
rewards	11	48	1399	2	rewards
sunwards	12	3	644	2	sunwards
swards	10	54	1513	2	_swards
towards	11	3	878	2	towards
upwards	13	13	596	2	upwards
vawards	14	45	757	2	vawards
wards	9	77	3440	2	__wards

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	107671	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	23	3.296	32667.2
3	Display Results	23	23	0.016	1437.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	3.702	48268.8