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

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

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60 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
rarely	9	35	1365	(None)
barely	11	47	1679	1	barely
rarefy	12	29	634	1	rarefy
yarely	12	28	1030	1	yarely
barfly	14	33	965	2	barfly
barley	11	51	1676	2	barley
basely	11	44	1231	2	basely
bravely	15	42	823	2	bravely
darkly	14	54	1107	2	darkly
direly	10	3	1155	2	direly
early	8	53	2412	2	ear_ly
gamely	12	47	1191	2	gamely
gravely	14	46	906	2	gravely
hardly	13	51	1283	2	hardly
irately	10	4	768	2	irately
lamely	11	40	1322	2	lamely
lanely	9	39	1448	2	lanely
largely	11	3	670	2	largely
lately	9	34	1384	2	lately
marbly	13	41	1193	2	marbly
marly	10	69	2561	2	mar_ly
merely	11	13	1258	2	merely
namely	11	37	1132	2	namely
palely	11	3	1192	2	palely
parley	11	67	1835	2	parley
partly	11	63	1547	2	partly
purely	11	40	1361	2	purely
racily	11	7	1517	2	racily
rally	8	47	2590	2	ra_lly
rankly	13	39	1045	2	rankly
raptly	11	33	891	2	raptly
rare	4	53	4843	2	rare__
rared	6	57	3832	2	rare_d
rarer	5	47	3170	2	rare_r
rares	5	52	4744	2	rare_s
rarest	6	57	2548	2	rarest
rarify	12	32	1006	2	rarify
rarity	9	36	1549	2	rarity
rashly	12	34	1021	2	rashly
ratel	5	42	2488	2	ratel_
ratels	6	45	1821	2	ratels
rattly	9	41	1154	2	rattly
ravel	8	46	2151	2	ravel_
ravelly	13	26	835	2	ravelly
ravels	9	47	1707	2	ravels
rawly	11	51	1583	2	ra_wly
rely	7	54	2895	2	__rely
rifely	12	37	1003	2	rifely
ripely	11	25	1115	2	ripely
rudely	10	38	997	2	rudely
safely	12	24	939	2	safely
sagely	10	28	1138	2	sagely
sanely	9	31	1461	2	sanely
sorely	9	46	1800	2	sorely
sparely	12	34	1066	2	sparely
surely	9	38	1645	2	surely
tamely	11	37	1195	2	tamely
tartly	9	60	1402	2	tartly
warily	12	29	1509	2	warily
warmly	14	22	806	2	warmly

Search took 3 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	82551	0.110	1624463.6
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	60	2.733	30205.3
3	Display Results	60	60	0.016	3750.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	60	2.859	62501.2