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

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

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79 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
swather	13	42	1360	(None)
slather	10	38	1607	1	slather
swasher	13	40	1151	1	swasher
swathe	12	55	1411	1	swathe_
swathed	14	46	1193	1	swathed
swathers	14	45	1208	1	swathers
swathes	13	41	1551	1	swathes
swatter	10	41	1332	1	swatter
swither	13	37	1099	1	swither
aweather	14	3	426	2	aweather
bather	11	53	2251	2	_bather
blather	12	53	1420	2	blather
father	12	51	1671	2	_father
feather	13	36	1350	2	feather
gather	10	41	1585	2	_gather
heather	13	39	1485	2	heather
lather	9	51	2435	2	_lather
leather	10	38	1578	2	leather
loather	10	37	1100	2	loather
rather	9	43	1974	2	_rather
scathe	11	44	1499	2	scathe_
scathed	13	40	1264	2	scathed
scathes	12	45	1571	2	scathes
scatter	9	38	1517	2	scatter
seater	6	45	3416	2	seat_er
shatter	10	36	1570	2	shatter
sheather	14	5	823	2	sheather
skater	10	50	1549	2	skat_er
slasher	10	45	1533	2	slasher
slater	6	44	2918	2	slat_er
slathers	11	39	1478	2	slathers
slatier	7	40	1681	2	slatier
slither	10	41	1298	2	slither
smasher	12	39	1102	2	smasher
smatter	9	36	1333	2	smatter
smother	12	35	1021	2	smother
snatcher	13	16	776	2	snatcher
snathe	9	44	1511	2	snathe_
snathes	10	48	1649	2	snathes
soother	10	42	1504	2	soother
souther	10	41	1630	2	souther
spathe	11	51	1569	2	spathe_
spathed	13	40	1318	2	spathed
spathes	12	51	1653	2	spathes
spatter	9	40	1652	2	spatter
stater	6	44	2756	2	stat_er
swabber	14	29	796	2	swabber
swager	10	40	1361	2	swa_ger
swagger	12	38	933	2	swagger
swamper	14	34	931	2	swamper
swanherd	15	3	348	2	swanherd
swanker	14	36	948	2	swanker
swapper	14	35	970	2	swapper
swarmer	12	4	780	2	swarmer
swarthier	15	4	378	2	swarthier
swashed	14	43	1136	2	swashed
swashers	14	38	953	2	swashers
swashes	13	47	1440	2	swashes
swatches	16	16	996	2	swatches
swath	11	59	2038	2	swath__
swaths	12	53	1264	2	swath_s
swatted	11	41	1069	2	swatted
swatters	11	39	1179	2	swatters
swayer	12	52	1097	2	swa_yer
sweater	10	37	1272	2	sweat_er
sweatier	11	4	703	2	sweatier
swisher	13	36	952	2	swisher
switcher	16	17	768	2	switcher
swithe	12	40	1068	2	swithe_
swithers	14	43	1053	2	swithers
swotter	10	39	947	2	swotter
washer	12	47	2039	2	_washer
watcher	15	31	1340	2	_watcher
water	8	47	3331	2	_wat_er
watter	9	32	2198	2	_watter
weather	13	35	1322	2	weather
wether	12	33	1539	2	_wether
wither	12	43	2135	2	_wither
wuther	12	45	1161	2	_wuther

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	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	79	2.906	37051.3
3	Display Results	79	79	0.013	6076.9
	(SQL Overall)	178691	79	3.295	54231.0