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

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

15 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
speleologists	16	5	432	(None)
speleologist	15	5	574	1	speleologist_
selenologists	14	5	533	2	s_elenologists
speleologies	15	5	388	2	speleologi_es
teleologists	13	4	722	2	_teleologists
pedologists	15	4	827	3	_pe_dologists
penologists	14	4	959	3	_pe_nologists
petrologists	15	5	914	3	_petrologists
psephologists	21	5	529	3	psephologists
selenologist	13	5	700	3	s_elenologist_
semiologists	15	4	822	3	s_emiologists
serologists	12	4	1012	3	s_e_rologists
sexologists	19	4	725	3	s_e_xologists
speleological	18	5	391	3	speleological
teleologist	12	4	938	3	_teleologist_

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	65874	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	15	2.656	24802.0
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	3.015	59267.3