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

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

13 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
waterfloods	18	15	276	(None)
waterflood	17	14	289	1	waterflood_
waterflooded	20	6	145	2	waterflooded
waterloos	12	4	604	2	water_loo_s
overfloods	17	4	343	3	_overfloods
watercolors	16	5	296	3	watercolors
waterflooding	21	10	139	3	waterflooding
waterfowls	19	5	333	3	waterf_owls
waterfronts	17	5	269	3	waterfronts
waterlogs	13	4	538	3	water_l_ogs
waterloo	11	4	572	3	water_loo__
waterproofs	19	5	301	3	waterproofs
waterzoois	22	5	352	3	water_zoois

Search took 6 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	121633	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121633	13	5.203	23377.5
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	5.593	31949.0