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

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

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
smoochers	16	18	483	(None)
moochers	15	36	912	1	_moochers
smoocher	15	20	550	1	smoocher_
smooches	15	21	726	1	smooche_s
smoothers	14	20	604	1	smoothers
moocher	14	36	1067	2	_moocher_
mooches	14	37	1445	2	_mooche_s
scooches	15	18	841	2	scooche_s
scorchers	16	14	551	2	scorchers
slouchers	14	18	562	2	slouchers
smooched	16	18	598	2	smooche_d
smooshes	13	20	686	2	smooshe_s
smoothens	14	19	425	2	smoothens
smoother	13	19	666	2	smoother_
smoothes	13	21	853	2	smoothe_s
smothers	13	34	993	2	sm_others
soothers	11	39	1343	2	s_oothers

Search took 8 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	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	17	7.203	16859.1
3	Display Results	17	17	0.013	1307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	7.622	23444.1