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

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

23 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
vawards	14	45	757	(None)
awards	10	71	1345	1	_awards
vaward	13	49	872	1	vaward_
award	9	71	1804	2	_award_
bayards	13	37	968	2	bayards
canards	10	3	1120	2	canards
cowards	13	3	961	2	cowards
haywards	18	4	587	2	haywards
hazards	20	3	746	2	hazards
inwards	11	3	834	2	inwards
manwards	14	4	761	2	manwards
mazards	19	3	770	2	mazards
onwards	11	3	717	2	onwards
rewards	11	48	1399	2	rewards
seawards	12	3	720	2	seawards
swards	10	54	1513	2	_swards
tabards	10	3	1038	2	tabards
towards	11	3	878	2	towards
upwards	13	13	596	2	upwards
vanward	14	5	694	2	vanward_
visards	11	32	815	2	visards
vizards	20	37	726	2	vizards
wards	9	77	3440	2	__wards

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	23	3.203	33615.7
3	Display Results	23	23	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	3.579	49927.6