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

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

You can choose a higher Change Limit to return more words, although it will take longer.
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17 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
damaging	13	3	739	(None)
amazing	19	3	881	2	_amazing
damagingly	18	7	293	2	damagingly
damasking	17	4	460	2	damasking
damming	13	38	1274	2	dam_ming
damning	11	42	1163	2	dam_ning
damping	13	34	1400	2	dam_ping
danging	10	37	1609	2	da_nging
endamaging	15	4	309	2	endamaging
garaging	11	3	904	2	garaging
homaging	15	3	661	2	homaging
imaging	11	3	808	2	_imaging
managing	12	3	909	2	managing
rampaging	15	4	451	2	rampaging
ravaging	13	4	632	2	ravaging
redamaging	15	4	376	2	redamaging
savaging	13	5	667	2	savaging

Search took 5 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	121059	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	17	3.720	32542.7
3	Display Results	17	17	0.013	1307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	4.123	43340.0