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

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

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
sapient	9	4	1533	(None)
salient	7	4	1976	1	salient
sapiens	9	3	1017	1	sapiens
sapients	10	3	742	1	sapients
patient	9	6	1707	2	patient
sagiest	8	26	1798	2	sagiest
saint	5	51	4707	2	sa_i_nt
salients	8	3	956	2	salients
saphena	12	3	586	2	saphena
sapience	12	10	661	2	sapience
sapiency	15	11	449	2	sapiency
sapiently	14	4	486	2	sapiently
sappiest	12	26	1257	2	sappiest
sarment	9	3	1876	2	sarment
satinet	7	3	2528	2	satinet
soapiest	10	24	1284	2	soapiest
spent	7	55	3283	2	s_p_ent
spinet	8	56	2975	2	s_pinet
splent	8	47	2019	2	s_plent
sprent	8	45	2238	2	s_prent

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	0.123	1452772.4
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	20	3.546	30364.1
3	Display Results	20	20	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	3.669	48702.9