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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “hieroglyphical” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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.

15 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
hieroglyphical	28	7	156	(None)
hieroglyphic	26	9	177	2	hieroglyphic__
hieroglyphics	27	8	126	2	hieroglyphic_s
chirographical	27	8	350	4	chi_rographical
hieroglyph	22	6	118	4	hieroglyph____
hieroglyphs	23	6	121	4	hieroglyph___s
triglyphical	23	6	110	4	__triglyphical
biographical	22	5	451	5	bi__ographical
demographical	24	5	416	5	_demographical
discographical	25	6	283	5	discographical
geographical	21	6	453	5	_ge_ographical
hagiographical	26	6	321	5	hagiographical
hierarchical	22	6	221	5	hier__archical
orographical	20	5	439	5	__orographical
petrographical	24	6	387	5	petrographical

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	95024	0.123	1452772.4
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	15	7.220	13161.2
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	7.359	24282.0