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

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

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.

20 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
yardmen	13	3	542	(None)
yardman	13	3	591	1	yardman
admen	8	45	1618	2	_a_dmen
aidmen	9	26	1037	2	_aidmen
badmen	11	46	1383	2	ba_dmen
barmen	10	54	1853	2	bar_men
birdmen	12	3	583	2	birdmen
boardmen	13	4	407	2	boardmen
carmen	10	40	1934	2	car_men
garden	8	42	1508	2	gard_en
harden	10	57	1853	2	hard_en
herdmen	13	23	845	2	herdmen
landmen	10	3	855	2	landmen
madmen	11	35	1174	2	ma_dmen
oarsmen	9	3	809	2	oarsmen
sandmen	10	3	941	2	sandmen
warden	10	45	1551	2	ward_en
yamen	10	41	1518	2	ya__men
yarded	11	47	1402	2	yard_ed
yarder	10	38	1397	2	yard_er

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	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	20	3.593	29966.9
3	Display Results	20	20	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	3.966	45055.7