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

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

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70 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
guardhouses	16	6	211	(None)
guardhouse	15	5	221	1	guardhouse_
beadhouses	16	4	429	3	bea_dhouses
birdhouses	16	4	332	3	_birdhouses
farmhouses	18	4	401	3	_farmhouses
gashouses	13	4	576	3	g_a_shouses
gatehouses	14	4	526	3	g_atehouses
glasshouses	15	5	246	3	glasshouses
madhouses	15	4	574	3	_ma_dhouses
roadhouses	14	4	450	3	roa_dhouses
sugarhouses	15	5	239	3	sugar_houses
warehouses	16	4	581	3	_warehouses
alehouses	12	4	658	4	__alehouses
arouses	7	49	2129	4	__ar__ouses
backhouses	21	4	574	4	_backhouses
baghouses	15	4	546	4	_ba_ghouses
bakehouses	19	13	445	4	_bakehouses
bathhouses	18	4	419	4	_bathhouses
beadhouse	15	4	442	4	bea_dhouse_
birdhouse	15	4	370	4	_birdhouse_
boathouses	15	4	592	4	boa_thouses
bughouses	15	4	474	4	bu__ghouses
bunkhouses	19	12	339	4	bu_nkhouses
burnouses	11	4	485	4	bu_r_nouses
carouses	10	6	1450	4	_car__ouses
carthorses	15	4	636	4	_carthorses
cathouses	14	3	943	4	_ca_thouses
courthouses	16	5	396	4	courthouses
farmhouse	17	4	403	4	_farmhouse_
firehouses	16	13	515	4	_firehouses
funhouses	15	4	459	4	fu__nhouses
gashouse	12	4	569	4	g_a_shouse_
gatehouse	13	4	516	4	g_atehouse_
giardiases	12	4	232	4	giard_iases
gladioluses	13	5	163	4	gla_dioluses
glasshouse	14	5	241	4	glasshouse_
graduses	10	4	645	4	gra_d__uses
greenhouses	15	5	324	4	greenhouses
grouses	8	46	1654	4	g__r__ouses
guarddogs	13	5	151	4	guarddo__gs
guardedness	14	4	348	4	guardedness
guardrooms	14	5	201	4	guardro_oms
hardnoses	13	4	623	4	_hardno_ses
jailhouses	20	4	300	4	_jailhouses
madhouse	14	4	550	4	_ma_dhouse_
nuthouses	12	4	634	4	nu__thouses
oasthouses	13	4	497	4	_oasthouses
outhouses	12	3	1066	4	ou__thouses
playhouses	18	4	387	4	pla_yhouses
poorhouses	15	4	529	4	poor_houses
rearouses	9	3	1020	4	rear__ouses
rehouses	11	3	1211	4	___rehouses
roadhouse	13	4	467	4	roa_dhouse_
roundhouses	15	10	299	4	roundhouses
sardiuses	10	4	475	4	_sard_iuses
statehouses	14	5	376	4	statehouses
storehouses	14	5	383	4	storehouses
sugarhouse	14	5	244	4	sugar_house_
taphouses	14	4	655	4	_ta_phouses
teahouses	12	4	651	4	tea__houses
unhouses	11	3	870	4	_u__nhouses
uprouses	10	3	755	4	_upr__ouses
warehouse	15	4	579	4	_warehouse_
warehoused	17	4	374	4	_warehoused
warehouser	16	4	397	4	_warehouser
warehousers	17	5	269	4	_warehousers
warhorses	15	4	557	4	_war_horses
washhouses	19	4	350	4	_washhouses
whorehouses	20	5	333	4	whorehouses
workhouses	20	4	489	4	_workhouses

Search took 9 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	148819	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148819	70	8.266	18003.8
3	Display Results	70	70	0.030	2333.3
	(SQL Overall)	178691	70	8.719	20494.4