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

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

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59 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
travels	10	47	1129	(None)
gravels	11	36	1114	1	gravels
ravels	9	47	1707	1	_ravels
tramels	9	38	1249	1	tramels
travel	9	41	1298	1	travel_
traves	9	42	2274	1	trave_s
bravely	15	42	823	2	bravely
bravers	12	47	1552	2	bravers
braves	11	55	2408	2	brave_s
caravels	13	3	744	2	caravels
carvels	12	49	1459	2	carvels
cravens	12	40	1012	2	cravens
cravers	12	44	1656	2	cravers
craves	11	58	2539	2	crave_s
drivels	11	39	792	2	drivels
gavels	10	59	1109	2	_gavels
gravel	10	53	1382	2	gravel_
gravely	14	46	906	2	gravely
gravers	11	45	1527	2	gravers
graves	10	46	2400	2	grave_s
grovels	11	42	781	2	grovels
marvels	12	38	1009	2	marvels
navels	9	57	1269	2	_navels
ratels	6	45	1821	2	_ratels
ravel	8	46	2151	2	_ravel_
ravens	9	39	1688	2	_ravens
ravers	9	46	2818	2	_ravers
raves	8	54	4197	2	_rave_s
revels	9	42	2057	2	_revels
taels	5	68	2207	2	t_a_els
teasels	7	43	1131	2	teasels
teazels	16	40	689	2	teazels
thraves	13	46	971	2	thrave_s
tracers	9	49	1784	2	tracers
traces	8	53	2993	2	trace_s
traders	8	43	1695	2	traders
trades	7	57	2450	2	trade_s
trails	6	46	2251	2	tra_ils
tramel	8	41	1371	2	tramel_
tramell	9	39	870	2	tramell
tramells	10	32	783	2	tramells
trammels	12	29	541	2	trammels
trapes	8	50	2446	2	trape_s
travails	11	4	608	2	travails
trave	8	52	2303	2	trave__
traveled	12	34	945	2	traveled
traveler	11	32	843	2	traveler
travelers	12	26	677	2	travelers
travelog	12	4	351	2	travelog
travelogs	13	4	338	2	travelogs
traverse	11	3	621	2	traverse
travois	10	3	788	2	travois
trawls	9	44	1239	2	tra_wls
trevets	10	49	997	2	trevets
trivets	10	39	1158	2	trivets
trovers	10	37	1332	2	trovers
troves	9	47	1911	2	trove_s
trowels	10	35	836	2	trowels
unravels	11	4	463	2	unravels

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	59	3.140	34290.1
3	Display Results	59	59	0.016	3687.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	59	3.532	50592.0