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

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

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70 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
barely	11	47	1679	(None)
barfly	14	33	965	1	barfly
barley	11	51	1676	1	barley
basely	11	44	1231	1	basely
rarely	9	35	1365	1	rarely
yarely	12	28	1030	1	yarely
babel	9	58	2169	2	babel_
babels	10	52	1672	2	babels
badly	11	49	1876	2	ba_dly
bagel	8	51	1679	2	bagel_
bagels	9	57	1231	2	bagels
bailey	11	50	1567	2	bailey
bairnly	12	3	450	2	bairnly
bakery	15	59	1100	2	bakery
baldly	12	47	983	2	baldly
bally	10	55	3010	2	ba_lly
barbel	10	43	1707	2	barbel_
barbell	11	42	996	2	barbell
barbels	11	45	1443	2	barbels
bare	6	54	6052	2	bare__
bared	8	51	4448	2	bare_d
barege	9	47	1354	2	barege
barer	7	45	3580	2	bare_r
bares	7	54	5713	2	bare_s
barest	8	53	2769	2	barest
barky	14	57	2161	2	bar_ky
barleys	12	50	1184	2	barleys
barmy	12	52	1876	2	bar_my
barney	11	53	1445	2	barney
barny	10	58	2173	2	bar_ny
barony	11	59	1530	2	barony
barrel	8	45	1787	2	barrel_
barrels	9	45	1436	2	barrels
barrenly	13	4	542	2	barrenly
bassly	11	46	1007	2	bassly
bluely	11	33	1008	2	bluely
bravely	15	42	823	2	bravely
brawly	14	43	1235	2	brawly
burbly	13	43	1115	2	burbly
burley	11	47	1575	2	burley
burly	10	49	2283	2	bur_ly
darkly	14	54	1107	2	darkly
direly	10	3	1156	2	direly
early	8	53	2412	2	ear_ly
gamely	12	47	1191	2	gamely
hardly	13	51	1283	2	hardly
lamely	11	40	1322	2	lamely
lanely	9	39	1448	2	lanely
largely	11	3	670	2	largely
lately	9	34	1384	2	lately
marbly	13	41	1193	2	marbly
marly	10	69	2561	2	mar_ly
merely	11	13	1258	2	merely
namely	11	37	1132	2	namely
palely	11	3	1192	2	palely
parley	11	67	1835	2	parley
partly	11	63	1547	2	partly
purely	11	40	1362	2	purely
rarefy	12	29	634	2	rarefy
rely	7	54	2895	2	__rely
safely	12	24	939	2	safely
sagely	10	28	1138	2	sagely
sanely	9	31	1461	2	sanely
sorely	9	46	1801	2	sorely
sparely	12	34	1067	2	sparely
surely	9	38	1646	2	surely
tamely	11	37	1195	2	tamely
tartly	9	60	1402	2	tartly
warily	12	29	1509	2	warily
warmly	14	22	806	2	warmly

Search took 6 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	82551	0.220	812231.8
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	70	5.406	15270.3
3	Display Results	70	70	0.046	1521.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	70	5.672	31504.1