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

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

21 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
histone	10	3	1284	(None)
histones	11	3	1280	1	histones
distome	10	3	1323	2	distome
hailstone	12	4	485	2	hailstone
hipbone	14	4	592	2	hipbone
histing	11	37	2037	2	histing
histogen	12	4	556	2	histogen
histoid	11	3	982	2	histoid
history	13	3	942	2	history
intone	6	11	1543	2	_intone
isotone	7	23	998	2	_isotone
misatone	10	4	976	2	misatone
misdone	10	3	1086	2	misdone
mistune	9	3	1065	2	mistune
oilstone	8	4	727	2	oilstone
pistole	9	24	1431	2	pistole
piston	8	35	1592	2	piston_
pistons	9	30	1637	2	pistons
stone	5	54	3118	2	__stone
tinstone	8	4	817	2	tinstone
whinstone	15	4	427	2	whinstone

Search took 4 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	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	21	3.280	32826.5
3	Display Results	21	21	0.016	1312.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	3.656	48876.1