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

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

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.

19 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
housemaid	15	4	390	(None)
housemaids	16	5	352	1	housemaids
houseman	13	4	658	2	housema_n
housemate	14	4	595	2	housemate
horsehair	15	9	366	3	horsehair
horseman	13	4	683	3	horsema_n
horsetail	12	4	469	3	horsetail
housecarl	14	5	360	3	housecarl
housed	10	56	2410	3	house___d
household	16	4	406	3	household
houseled	12	3	728	3	house_led
houselled	13	4	620	3	houselled
housemates	15	4	614	3	housemates
housemen	13	4	656	3	housem_en
housesat	11	4	648	3	housesa_t
housesit	11	7	709	3	house_sit
mousepad	13	4	309	3	mousepa_d
mousetail	11	8	339	3	mousetail
nursemaid	12	5	184	3	nursemaid

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	148641	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	19	7.546	19698.0
3	Display Results	19	19	0.016	1187.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	7.985	22378.3