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

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

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.

12 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
allegedly	14	7	271	(None)
alleged	9	38	932	2	alleged__
allowedly	16	4	232	2	allowedly
agedly	11	3	646	3	a___gedly
alarmedly	15	4	244	3	alarmedly
allege	7	43	1465	3	allege___
alleger	8	31	963	3	allege__r
allegers	9	37	823	3	allege_rs
alleges	8	42	1257	3	allege__s
allegory	12	4	429	3	alleg_ory
illegally	13	4	373	3	illegally
illegibly	15	5	314	3	illegibly

Search took 8 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	148641	0.436	409841.7
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	12	7.360	20195.8
3	Display Results	12	12	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	12	7.796	22920.9