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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “acknowledgment” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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.

11 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
acknowledgment	27	10	161	(None)
acknowledgement	28	8	141	1	acknowledgement
acknowledgments	28	10	147	1	acknowledgments
acknowledge	22	6	174	3	acknowledg_e__
acknowledged	24	8	169	3	acknowledg_e_d
acknowledges	23	8	176	3	acknowledg_e_s
acknowledging	25	7	128	3	acknowledg_ing
acknowledgedly	29	8	139	4	acknowledgedly
knowledge	18	5	238	5	__knowledg_e__
knowledges	19	5	218	5	__knowledg_e_s
unacknowledged	26	9	122	5	unacknowledg_e_d

Search took 7 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	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	11	6.406	14833.6
3	Display Results	11	11	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	11	6.779	26359.5