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

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

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.

18 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
purpose	11	3	738	(None)
purposed	13	3	527	1	purposed
purposes	12	3	782	1	purposes
pappose	10	4	741	2	pappose
porose	8	48	1874	2	por_ose
porpoise	12	4	808	2	porpoise
propose	11	27	1484	2	propose
prose	7	58	3512	2	p_r_ose
purple	10	27	1268	2	purp_le
purples	11	27	1283	2	purples
purport	11	5	939	2	purport
purposely	16	4	293	2	purposely
purposive	16	4	322	2	purposive
purpure	11	9	599	2	purpure
purse	7	60	2889	2	pur__se
repurpose	13	4	313	2	repurpose
suppose	11	3	797	2	suppose
uprose	8	23	1148	2	upr_ose

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	107671	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	18	2.983	36094.9
3	Display Results	18	18	0.016	1125.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	3.375	52945.5