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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “congratulators” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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.

15 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
congratulators	17	6	204	(None)
congratulator	16	7	212	1	congratulator_
congratulatory	20	6	173	1	congratulatory
congratulates	16	10	329	2	congratulat_es
congratulations	18	8	278	2	congratulations
confabulators	20	14	254	3	con_fabulators
congratulate	15	8	319	3	congratulat__e
congratulated	17	11	287	3	congratulat_ed
congratulating	18	6	214	3	congratulating
congratulation	17	8	282	3	congratulation
confabulator	19	14	271	4	con_fabulator_
confabulatory	23	12	227	4	con_fabulatory
congregators	16	5	383	4	congr__egators
granulators	12	4	461	4	___granulators
gratulatory	15	5	320	4	___gratulatory

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	65874	0.326	548131.9
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	15	3.610	18247.6
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	3.952	45215.3