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

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

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.

13 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
howsoever	18	5	199	(None)
however	16	3	451	2	how__ever
whomsoever	21	5	156	2	whomsoever
whosoever	18	4	198	2	who_soever
holdover	15	4	408	3	holdo_ver
hoover	12	43	1443	3	ho__o_ver
hosteler	11	3	728	3	ho_steler
soever	9	44	1209	3	___soever
whatsoever	19	5	127	3	whatsoever
whensoever	19	5	122	3	whensoever
whoever	16	3	410	3	__whoever
whosesoever	20	6	147	3	whosesoever
whosever	17	4	289	3	who_s_ever

Search took 7 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	13	6.296	23608.8
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	6.719	26594.9