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

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

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40 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
affirmative	22	5	309	(None)
affirmatives	23	5	215	1	affirmatives
affirmation	19	5	368	2	affirmation
affirmatively	27	6	181	2	affirmatively
affricative	22	5	303	2	affricative
affirmable	20	4	262	3	affirma_ble
affirmance	20	5	277	3	affirma_nce
affirmations	20	5	323	3	affirmations
affricatives	23	5	197	3	affricatives
deformative	20	4	497	3	deformative
formative	17	4	796	3	__formative
informative	19	6	515	3	informative
reformative	19	4	567	3	reformative
adversative	18	5	324	4	adversative
affective	20	13	541	4	aff__ective
affiliate	15	4	532	4	affiliat__e
affiliating	18	4	417	4	affiliating
affiliation	17	4	485	4	affiliation
affirmances	21	5	260	4	affirmances
affirmant	17	5	381	4	affirma__nt
affirmants	18	5	276	4	affirma_nts
affirming	18	4	310	4	affirm__ing
affixation	23	4	439	4	affi_xation
afflictive	21	10	280	4	aff_lictive
affricate	17	4	497	4	affricat__e
affricating	20	4	396	4	affricating
agitative	13	4	687	4	a_gi_tative
alternative	14	5	468	4	alternative
amative	12	3	1173	4	a____mative
anticreative	17	5	504	4	anticreative
arbitrative	16	5	426	4	arbitrative
assortative	14	7	395	4	assortative
axiomatize	28	7	425	4	a_xiomatize
estimative	15	4	648	4	esti_mative
fixative	21	4	508	4	__fi_xative
formatives	18	4	621	4	__formatives
fricative	17	4	674	4	_fri_cative
normative	14	4	889	4	__normative
performative	22	10	387	4	performative
reaffirmation	21	5	206	4	reaffirmation

Search took 10 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	148819	0.453	394461.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148819	40	8.860	16796.7
3	Display Results	40	40	0.016	2500.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	40	9.329	19154.4