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

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

19 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
competency	21	5	504	(None)
competence	18	4	672	1	competence
competences	19	5	637	2	competences
competent	15	4	1125	2	competen_t
competently	20	5	482	2	competently
incompetency	23	12	384	2	incompetency
appetency	18	5	355	3	_appetency
coherency	19	7	455	3	co_herency
compete	13	47	1655	3	compete___
competed	15	41	1359	3	compete__d
competencies	20	6	497	3	competencies
competes	14	41	1724	3	compete__s
competing	16	37	1246	3	competin_g
complacency	21	5	250	3	complacency
completely	19	4	455	3	complete_ly
compliancy	21	5	376	3	compliancy
corpulency	19	5	283	3	corpulency
impotency	18	4	448	3	_impotency
incompetence	20	11	513	3	incompetence

Search took 7 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	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	19	5.596	25125.6
3	Display Results	19	19	0.013	1461.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	6.029	29638.6