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

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

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41 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
taught	10	43	1223	(None)
aught	9	51	2070	1	_aught
caught	12	49	1168	1	caught
naught	10	43	1249	1	naught
waught	13	38	1104	1	waught
aughts	10	47	1024	2	_aughts
bought	12	51	1564	2	bought
claught	13	3	510	2	claught
dought	11	49	1552	2	dought
draught	12	26	698	2	draught
faugh	12	57	1296	2	faugh_
fought	13	51	1240	2	fought
fraught	14	26	636	2	fraught
haugh	12	51	1405	2	haugh_
haughs	13	40	856	2	haughs
haughty	17	33	464	2	haughty
laugh	9	44	1437	2	laugh_
laughs	10	48	902	2	laughs
naughts	11	44	751	2	naughts
naughty	14	44	562	2	naughty
nought	10	47	1397	2	nought
ought	9	52	2154	2	_ought
paughty	16	29	432	2	paughty
retaught	12	4	466	2	retaught
saugh	9	53	1840	2	saugh_
saughs	10	48	1205	2	saughs
saughy	13	50	746	2	saughy
sought	10	63	1506	2	sought
target	7	50	2890	2	target
taunt	5	55	3228	2	tau_nt
taut	4	70	4896	2	tau__t
teugh	9	55	1161	2	teugh_
thought	14	63	914	2	thought
tight	9	36	2650	2	t_ight
tough	9	73	2199	2	tough_
toughs	10	54	1499	2	toughs
toughy	13	59	1108	2	toughy
untaught	12	4	373	2	untaught
waucht	14	39	941	2	waucht
waugh	12	54	1168	2	waugh_
waughts	14	35	596	2	waughts

Search took 5 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	82551	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	41	3.750	22013.6
3	Display Results	41	41	0.016	2562.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	41	4.139	43172.5