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

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

21 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
avoidance	15	4	372	(None)
avoidances	16	4	334	1	avoidances
voidance	14	4	472	1	_voidance
abidance	13	4	632	2	a_bidance
avoidable	15	12	474	2	avoidable
voidances	15	4	447	2	_voidances
abidances	14	4	559	3	a_bidances
abundance	14	4	364	3	abundance
accidence	13	4	461	3	accidence
accordance	14	5	335	3	accordance
affiance	16	4	565	3	affi_ance
alliance	10	9	726	3	alli_ance
ambiance	14	4	606	3	ambi_ance
avoidably	18	11	324	3	avoidably
avoiding	13	3	678	3	avoidin_g
evidence	14	4	655	3	ev_idence
guidance	12	4	498	3	_guidance
nondance	11	4	823	3	_nondance
valiance	13	9	738	3	vali_ance
variance	13	9	741	3	vari_ance
voidable	14	6	685	3	_voidable

Search took 9 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	148641	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	21	7.986	18612.7
3	Display Results	21	21	0.170	123.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	8.312	21498.0