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

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

23 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
emirate	9	10	1583	(None)
amirate	9	11	1595	1	amirate
emigrate	11	4	960	1	emigrate
emirates	10	12	1484	1	emirates
amirates	10	11	1479	2	amirates
emanate	9	3	1247	2	emanate
embrace	13	8	889	2	embrace
embrute	11	4	570	2	embrute
emeerate	10	4	1009	2	emeerate
emigrated	13	4	706	2	emigrated
emigrates	12	4	856	2	emigrates
emulate	9	3	1412	2	emulate
epilate	9	3	1428	2	epilate
geminate	11	4	1179	2	geminate
imitate	9	3	1087	2	imitate
irate	5	56	2798	2	__irate
levirate	11	4	762	2	levirate
migrate	10	13	1416	2	_migrate
mirage	9	23	1365	2	_mirage
misate	8	12	2269	2	_misate
misrate	9	13	1914	2	_misrate
pirate	8	23	2288	2	_pirate
remigrate	12	4	922	2	remigrate

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	107671	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	23	2.876	37437.8
3	Display Results	23	23	0.013	1769.2
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	3.045	58683.4