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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “thermoplastic” 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.

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
thermoplastic	22	6	399	(None)
thermoplastics	23	6	264	1	thermoplastics
homoplastic	20	5	581	3	_h_omoplastic
thermostatic	19	5	434	3	thermosta_tic
thermotactic	21	6	347	3	thermo_tactic
thromboplastic	25	7	205	3	thromboplastic
aeroelastic	13	5	487	4	_aer_oelastic
chloroplastic	22	6	276	4	chloroplastic
esemplastic	17	5	272	4	ese_m_plastic
hypoplastic	23	5	624	4	_h_ypoplastic
meroblastic	17	5	528	4	_mer_oblastic
neoplastic	14	4	678	4	_ne__oplastic
thermoelectric	23	10	247	4	thermoelectric
thermographic	26	5	565	4	thermographic
thermophilic	24	6	397	4	thermop_hilic
thromboplastin	23	7	163	4	thromboplastin

Search took 6 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	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	16	5.123	18548.5
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	5.515	32400.9