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

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

16 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
appall	10	37	974	(None)
appal	9	53	1522	1	appa_l
appalls	11	33	774	1	appalls
appals	10	48	1294	1	appals
appalled	13	4	481	2	appalled
apparel	11	4	600	2	apparel
appeal	10	39	1161	2	appeal
appeals	11	37	867	2	appeals
appel	9	46	1589	2	app_el
appels	10	43	1279	2	appels
apple	9	45	1767	2	app_le
apply	12	51	1139	2	app_ly
pall	6	50	3934	2	__pall
papal	9	58	2067	2	papa_l
papally	14	3	797	2	papally
spall	7	49	1930	2	_spall

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	82551	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	16	2.813	29346.2
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	3.172	56333.9