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

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

18 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
favisms	15	3	544	(None)
fauvisms	16	4	374	1	fauvisms
favism	14	3	791	1	favism_
agisms	9	39	939	2	_agisms
atavisms	13	4	699	2	atavisms
avisos	9	54	1048	2	_avisos
civisms	14	3	607	2	civisms
faddisms	15	26	498	2	faddisms
fascisms	15	4	566	2	fascisms
fauvism	15	4	522	2	fauvism_
fauvists	14	4	384	2	fauvists
favuses	13	3	618	2	favuses
mavises	12	28	1299	2	mavises
nanisms	9	3	884	2	nanisms
papisms	13	23	854	2	papisms
pavises	12	53	1549	2	pavises
racisms	11	23	1081	2	racisms
sadisms	10	35	911	2	sadisms

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	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	18	3.250	33129.5
3	Display Results	18	18	0.016	1125.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	3.642	49064.0