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

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

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.

12 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
photosynthetic	27	9	270	(None)
photosynthesis	25	12	276	2	photosynthesis
chemosynthetic	29	7	152	3	chemosynthetic
photosynthate	24	9	262	3	photosynthat_e
photosynthates	25	13	256	3	photosynthates
photosyntheses	25	11	263	3	photosyntheses
photosynthesize	35	8	177	3	photosynthesize
biosynthetic	22	6	227	4	__biosynthetic
parasynthetic	23	6	204	4	p_arasynthetic
photokinetic	23	7	434	4	photokin__etic
photospheric	24	5	513	4	photos__pheric
photostatic	18	5	711	4	photos__t_atic

Search took 4 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	0.093	1921408.6
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	12	2.936	22436.6
3	Display Results	12	12	0.016	750.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	3.045	58683.4