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

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

14 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
employs	14	5	552	(None)
employ	13	4	649	1	employ_
employe	14	7	636	1	employe
employes	15	5	594	1	employes
coemploys	18	4	276	2	coemploys
deploys	13	3	652	2	deploys
employed	16	5	495	2	employed
employee	15	5	520	2	employee
employees	16	5	339	2	employees
employer	15	6	471	2	employer
employers	16	4	412	2	employers
emulous	9	3	734	2	emulous
ploys	10	58	1659	2	__ploys
reemploys	16	5	300	2	reemploys

Search took 8 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	0.783	228213.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	14	6.923	15552.7
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	7.706	23188.6