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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “myelencephalon” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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.

16 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
myelencephalon	26	8	161	(None)
mesencephalon	22	7	229	2	m_esencephalon
metencephalon	22	7	241	2	m_etencephalon
myelencephala	25	9	173	2	myelencephal_a
myelencephalic	28	8	204	2	myelencephalic
telencephalon	20	7	221	2	_telencephalon
diencephalon	20	7	249	4	__diencephalon
encephalon	17	5	369	4	____encephalon
mesencephala	21	7	241	4	m_esencephal_a
mesencephalic	24	7	260	4	m_esencephalic
metencephala	21	7	244	4	m_etencephal_a
metencephalic	24	7	282	4	m_etencephalic
prosencephalon	23	8	156	4	prosencephalon
rhinencephalon	24	8	174	4	rhinencephalon
telencephala	19	7	250	4	_telencephal_a
telencephalic	22	7	274	4	_telencephalic

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	65874	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	16	5.563	11841.5
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	5.999	29786.8