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

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

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
baffing	16	40	1160	(None)
baffling	17	5	605	1	baffling
barfing	13	46	1509	1	barfing
biffing	16	35	1001	1	biffing
boffing	16	33	998	1	boffing
buffing	16	34	1139	1	buffing
daffing	15	36	973	1	daffing
gaffing	15	37	973	1	gaffing
naffing	14	35	903	1	naffing
waffing	17	37	1024	1	waffing
yaffing	17	33	782	1	yaffing

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	69583	0.330	541487.9
2	DLD Change Limit	69583	11	1.263	55093.4
3	Display Results	11	11	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	11	1.593	112172.6