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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “waterlessness” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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69 similar words found! Changes to Transform each Found Word to your word are shown as:
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(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
waterlessness	16	5	385	(None)
waterlessnesses	17	5	472	2	waterlessnesses
agelessness	12	4	607	3	_age_lessness
airlessness	11	4	625	3	_a_irlessness
carelessness	14	4	654	3	care_lessness
cheerlessness	18	5	370	3	cheerlessness
facelessness	17	8	605	3	face_lessness
hairlessness	15	4	530	3	ha_irlessness
motherlessness	19	5	223	3	motherlessness
namelessness	14	4	561	3	name_lessness
pathlessness	17	5	490	3	pat_hlessness
powerlessness	18	5	319	3	powerlessness
statelessness	12	5	514	3	state_lessness
tastelessness	12	5	419	3	taste_lessness
waterishness	18	5	326	3	water_ishness
witlessness	14	4	626	3	wit__lessness
aimlessness	13	4	567	4	_a_imlessness
artlessness	11	4	643	4	_a_rtlessness
blamelessness	17	5	454	4	blame_lessness
cateresses	12	4	835	4	cater_ess_e_s
ceaselessness	14	5	511	4	cease_lessness
colorlessness	15	5	390	4	colorlessness
dauntlessness	14	5	377	4	dauntlessness
deathlessness	17	5	432	4	deat_hlessness
faithlessness	19	5	397	4	faithlessness
fathomlessness	22	6	155	4	fathomlessness
faultlessness	16	5	394	4	faultlessness
fearlessness	15	4	576	4	_fearlessness
futurelessness	17	6	195	4	futurelessness
gracelessness	16	6	476	4	grace_lessness
gutlessness	12	4	601	4	gut__lessness
haplessness	16	4	566	4	ha__plessness
harmlessness	17	4	505	4	ha_rmlessness
heedlessness	16	8	502	4	_heedlessness
homelessness	17	4	610	4	home_lessness
hopelessness	17	4	575	4	hope_lessness
humorlessness	18	5	316	4	humorlessness
landlessness	13	4	571	4	la_ndlessness
lawlessness	14	4	489	4	la__wlessness
lifelessness	15	4	529	4	life_lessness
lovelessness	15	4	573	4	love_lessness
movelessness	17	4	530	4	move_lessness
needlessness	13	7	468	4	_needlessness
painlessness	14	4	544	4	pa_inlessness
pitilessness	14	7	452	4	pit_ilessness
raylessness	14	4	511	4	ra__ylessness
ruthlessness	15	5	431	4	rut_hlessness
saplessness	12	4	598	4	sa__plessness
sexlessness	17	4	531	4	__sexlessness
shamelessness	17	5	496	4	shame_lessness
shapelessness	17	5	496	4	shape_lessness
sleeplessness	14	5	355	4	sleeplessness
tactlessness	14	4	541	4	ta_ctlessness
timelessness	14	4	578	4	time_lessness
tirelessness	12	4	593	4	__tirelessness
tonelessness	12	4	624	4	tone_lessness
toplessness	13	4	540	4	__toplessness
uselessness	10	7	599	4	_use_lessness
valuelessness	16	5	345	4	valuelessness
waterbusses	16	5	285	4	waterbuss_e_s
watercresses	17	5	260	4	watercress_e_s
wateriness	13	4	807	4	water___iness
waterinesses	15	6	719	4	wateriness_e_s
waterless	12	3	801	4	waterl____ess
waterlines	13	4	895	4	waterl__ine_s
winglessness	16	5	432	4	w_inglessness
wordlessness	16	4	471	4	w_ordlessness
worklessness	19	5	410	4	w_orklessness
worthlessness	19	5	365	4	worthlessness

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	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	69	5.186	18323.2
3	Display Results	69	69	0.046	1500.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	69	5.592	31954.8