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

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

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33 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
photographer	23	4	968	(None)
phonographer	23	4	786	1	phonographer
photographed	24	5	865	1	photographed
photographers	24	5	716	1	photographers
chorographer	23	11	824	2	chorographer
holographer	20	8	839	2	_holographer
phonographers	24	6	579	2	phonographers
photograph	21	4	1101	2	photograph__
photographic	25	4	1030	2	photographic
photographies	24	5	938	2	photographies
photographs	22	4	1146	2	photograph_s
photography	25	4	1007	2	photograph_y
cartographer	20	9	611	3	cartographer
chirographer	23	10	606	3	chirographer
choreographer	24	9	574	3	choreographer
chorographers	24	10	612	3	chorographers
holographed	21	10	762	3	_holographed
holographers	21	6	622	3	_holographers
iconographer	20	5	489	3	iconographer
paleographer	20	11	573	3	paleographer
petrographer	20	5	728	3	petrographer
phonograph	21	4	880	3	phonograph__
phonographic	25	4	843	3	phonographic
phonographies	24	4	746	3	phonographies
phonographs	22	4	890	3	phonograph_s
phonography	25	6	830	3	phonograph_y
photographing	25	6	597	3	photographing
photogravure	21	8	232	3	photogravure
physiographer	27	5	434	3	physiographer
polygrapher	22	5	406	3	p_olygrapher
pornographer	20	5	600	3	pornographer
rephotographed	26	6	322	3	rephotographed
topographer	19	4	669	3	_topographer

Search took 5 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	95024	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	33	4.606	20630.5
3	Display Results	33	33	0.016	2062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	33	4.748	37635.0