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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “malignancy” 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
malignancy	18	5	185	(None)
malignance	15	5	275	1	malignance
malignances	16	5	264	2	malignances
malignant	12	4	522	2	malignan_t
malignantly	17	5	188	2	malignantly
benignancy	18	5	183	3	benignancy
malignancies	17	5	173	3	malignancies
maligning	13	14	558	3	malignin_g
malignity	15	4	365	3	malign_ity
malignly	14	4	468	3	malig__nly
militancy	16	4	412	3	mili_tancy
poignancy	17	5	248	3	_poignancy
valiancy	16	7	481	3	vali__ancy

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	140603	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	13	7.093	19822.8
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	7.516	23774.7