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

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

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
licensees	11	8	447	(None)
licencees	13	13	464	1	licencees
licensee	10	16	630	1	licensee_
licensers	11	11	458	1	licensers
licenses	10	11	892	1	licens_es
licencee	12	11	646	2	licencee_
licencers	13	13	464	2	licencers
licences	12	12	932	2	licen_ces
license	9	14	842	2	licens_e_
licensed	11	14	572	2	licens_ed
licenser	10	15	588	2	licens_er
licensors	11	10	402	2	licensors
licensures	12	4	305	2	licensures

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	121436	0.780	229091.0
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	13	6.733	18035.9
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	7.513	23784.2