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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “urethritis” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

14 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
urethritis	13	5	329	(None)
arthritis	12	4	747	2	ar_thritis
urethritises	15	8	221	2	urethritises
arteritis	9	4	975	3	ar_teritis
arthritic	14	4	739	3	ar_thritic
arthritics	15	4	526	3	ar_thritics
erethitic	14	4	512	3	ereth_itic
erythrites	16	10	444	3	erythrites
metritis	10	4	918	3	_met_ritis
nephritis	14	4	512	3	_nephritis
preterites	12	4	1179	3	preterites
preterits	11	4	1096	3	preterit_s
retinitis	9	4	802	3	_retinitis
urethras	11	7	461	3	urethr__as

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	140603	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	14	6.763	20790.0
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	7.186	24866.5