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

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

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
sapience	12	10	661	(None)
salience	10	11	790	1	salience
sapiences	13	11	642	1	sapiences
sapiency	15	11	449	1	sapiency
apiece	10	5	1008	2	_apie_ce
faience	12	3	751	2	fa_ience
patience	12	4	752	2	patience
saliences	11	10	806	2	saliences
saliency	13	12	539	2	saliency
saphenae	13	4	485	2	saphenae
sapiencies	14	4	512	2	sapiencies
sapiens	9	3	1017	2	sapien_s
sapient	9	4	1534	2	sapien_t
sapients	10	3	742	2	sapients
science	11	3	878	2	s_cience
seapiece	12	4	437	2	seapie_ce
spence	10	38	1379	2	s_p_ence

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	121059	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	17	3.406	35542.9
3	Display Results	17	17	0.016	1062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	3.812	46875.9