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

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

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61 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
whiff	17	3	1006	(None)
whiffs	18	3	508	1	whiffs
biff	12	50	2689	2	_biff
chaff	16	50	1628	2	chaff
chief	13	44	1948	2	chief
chuff	16	48	1249	2	chuff
cliff	13	59	1713	2	cliff
diff	11	62	2884	2	_diff
gliff	12	49	1566	2	gliff
griff	12	44	1646	2	griff
huff	13	56	2384	2	_huff
iff	9	67	3039	2	__iff
jiff	17	53	2141	2	_jiff
miff	12	56	2506	2	_miff
quiff	20	11	1156	2	quiff
riff	10	44	3010	2	_riff
shift	11	42	2514	2	shift
skiff	15	36	1280	2	skiff
sniff	11	39	1586	2	sniff
spiff	13	36	1640	2	spiff
stiff	11	42	1924	2	stiff
thief	11	45	1630	2	thief
tiff	10	47	2772	2	_tiff
waff	13	42	2804	2	w_aff
waif	10	58	3675	2	wai_f
waifs	11	57	1987	2	waifs
wharf	14	3	1582	2	wharf
which	16	39	1008	2	which
whid	11	54	1887	2	whi_d
whids	12	54	1398	2	whids
whiffed	20	6	447	2	whiffed
whiffer	19	10	532	2	whiffer
whiffet	19	6	534	2	whiffet
whiffle	19	3	353	2	whiffle
whig	11	55	1642	2	whi_g
whigs	12	56	1264	2	whigs
while	11	54	1869	2	while
whim	12	62	2053	2	whi_m
whims	13	45	1533	2	whims
whin	10	52	2569	2	whi_n
whine	11	60	2281	2	whine
whins	11	49	2233	2	whins
whiny	14	49	1557	2	whiny
whip	12	55	2184	2	whi_p
whips	13	49	1708	2	whips
whipt	13	53	1742	2	whipt
whir	10	55	1928	2	whi_r
whirl	11	49	1382	2	whirl
whirr	11	46	1119	2	whirr
whirs	11	52	1809	2	whirs
whish	14	45	1292	2	whish
whisk	15	45	1014	2	whisk
whist	11	53	2295	2	whist
whit	10	48	3417	2	whi_t
white	11	49	2030	2	white
whits	11	59	2382	2	whits
whity	14	55	1347	2	whity
whiz	19	59	1994	2	whi_z
whizz	19	42	1032	2	whizz
whoof	14	46	1269	2	whoof
wife	10	52	2802	2	w_ife

Search took 2 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	53800	0.330	541487.9
2	DLD Change Limit	53800	61	1.546	34799.5
3	Display Results	61	61	0.013	4692.3
	(SQL Overall)	178691	61	1.889	94595.6