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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “foreshadowing” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

16 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
foreshadowing	24	6	107	(None)
foreshowing	21	5	352	2	foresh__owing
beshadowing	21	9	187	3	__beshadowing
foreshadow	20	5	182	3	foreshadow___
foreshadowed	23	13	128	3	foreshadow_ed
foreshadower	22	13	129	3	foreshadow_er
foreshadowers	23	11	104	3	foreshadowers
foreshadows	21	5	155	3	foreshadow__s
overshadowing	24	5	168	3	_overshadowing
foredoing	14	5	648	4	fore___do_ing
foreknowing	22	5	186	4	fore__knowing
foreshown	18	6	447	4	foresh__ow_n_
forestalling	16	5	363	4	foresta_lling
preshowing	19	4	447	4	_presh__owing
reshowing	16	4	663	4	__resh__owing
shadowing	17	4	426	4	____shadowing

Search took 6 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	95024	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	16	5.250	18099.8
3	Display Results	16	16	0.013	1230.8
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	5.606	31875.0