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

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

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
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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
president	12	4	1099	(None)
presidents	13	4	702	1	presidents
resident	9	3	1375	1	_resident
copresident	16	8	444	2	copresident
coresident	13	7	679	2	coresident
precedent	14	4	887	2	precedent
prescient	13	4	1132	2	prescient
present	9	40	2273	2	pres__ent
preside	10	7	1561	2	preside__
presided	12	4	1055	2	preside_d
presidency	18	4	465	2	presidency
presider	11	4	1042	2	preside_r
presiders	12	4	821	2	presiders
presides	11	4	1491	2	preside_s
presiding	13	5	1090	2	presiding
provident	15	4	622	2	provident
residents	10	3	842	2	_residents

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	121436	0.140	1276364.3
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	17	5.016	24209.7
3	Display Results	17	17	0.016	1062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	5.172	34549.7