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

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

20 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
helical	12	3	1115	(None)
heliacal	13	4	472	1	heliacal
chemical	17	4	839	2	chemical
epical	10	4	1339	2	_epical
hectical	15	4	794	2	hectical
heliac	11	10	1089	2	heli_ac
helically	17	4	943	2	helically
helices	12	3	1372	2	helices
helicon	12	3	764	2	helicon
helipad	13	4	472	2	helipad
hellcat	12	4	1017	2	hellcat
heroical	13	4	1002	2	heroical
lexical	16	3	736	2	lexical
medical	12	3	1251	2	medical
metical	11	3	1536	2	metical
pelican	11	3	943	2	pelican
plical	10	4	1168	2	_plical
telial	6	58	1536	2	teli_al
thetical	13	4	912	2	thetical
vesical	12	15	981	2	vesical

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	0.656	272394.8
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	20	6.673	16135.3
3	Display Results	20	20	0.016	1250.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	7.345	24328.3