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

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

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42 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
rankest	11	27	1381	(None)
crankest	14	3	814	1	crankest
dankest	12	26	1167	1	dankest
frankest	15	3	696	1	frankest
lankest	11	27	1411	1	lankest
blankest	14	43	906	2	blankest
crankiest	15	3	882	2	crankiest
darkest	12	25	1262	2	darkest
drunkest	13	3	442	2	drunkest
grandest	10	3	1157	2	grandest
lankiest	12	29	1249	2	lankiest
pinkest	13	28	1262	2	pinkest
punkest	13	26	1169	2	punkest
raciest	9	28	2001	2	raciest
racket	12	52	2942	2	racke_t
rackets	13	49	1687	2	rackets
rainiest	8	12	1492	2	rainiest
rakes	9	44	4035	2	ra_kes_
rances	8	46	2544	2	rances_
randiest	9	34	1877	2	randiest
ranees	6	46	2396	2	ranees_
ranges	7	38	2692	2	ranges_
rangiest	9	31	1598	2	rangiest
ranked	11	46	2074	2	ranke_d
ranker	10	50	2190	2	ranke_r
rankers	11	32	1746	2	rankers
rankish	14	5	1038	2	rankish
rankles	11	31	1454	2	rankles_
rankless	12	26	823	2	rankless
rankness	12	26	794	2	rankness
ranks	9	52	2573	2	rank_s_
rarest	6	57	2548	2	ra_rest
rashest	10	39	1687	2	rashest
rawest	9	36	1506	2	ra_west
renest	6	45	2971	2	ren_est
sanest	6	44	2669	2	san_est
swankest	15	10	593	2	swankest
tannest	7	26	1785	2	tannest
wackest	16	47	1086	2	wackest
waniest	10	38	1911	2	waniest
wannest	10	39	1500	2	wannest
zaniest	16	32	1477	2	zaniest

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	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	42	3.343	32207.9
3	Display Results	42	42	0.016	2625.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	42	3.732	47880.8