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

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

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.

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
flees	8	58	2875	(None)
fees	7	64	5060	1	f_ees
fleas	8	64	2366	1	fleas
flee	7	62	3879	1	flee_
fleer	8	60	2077	1	fleer
fleers	9	60	1579	1	fleers
fleet	8	59	3233	1	fleet
fleets	9	69	1506	1	fleets
flews	11	53	1644	1	flews
flexes	16	45	1295	1	flexes
fleys	11	70	1560	1	fleys
flies	8	56	3071	1	flies
floes	8	55	2814	1	floes
flues	8	46	2692	1	flues
frees	8	61	3139	1	frees
glees	6	50	2759	1	glees
lees	4	54	5588	1	_lees

Search took 2 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	28756	0.143	1249587.4
2	DLD Change Limit	28756	17	1.060	27128.3
3	Display Results	17	17	0.016	1062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	1.219	146588.2