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

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

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.

15 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
authentication	19	10	251	(None)
authentications	20	7	212	1	authentications
authenticating	20	6	183	2	authenticating
authenticator	18	8	159	2	authenticat_or
authenticate	17	10	277	3	authenticat__e
authenticated	19	9	216	3	authenticat_ed
authenticates	18	9	249	3	authenticat_es
authenticators	19	9	135	3	authenticators
authenticities	19	6	343	3	authenticities
augmentation	15	5	439	4	augment__ation
authentically	21	5	556	4	authentica_lly
authenticity	20	6	336	4	authentic__ity
authorization	25	5	585	4	auth_orization
automatization	25	5	454	4	automatization
potentiation	14	5	597	4	pot_enti_ation

Search took 5 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	65874	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	15	3.720	17708.1
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	4.079	43807.6