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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “battered” 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.

14 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
battered	11	33	1505	(None)
bantered	11	33	1363	1	bantered
bartered	11	31	1301	1	bartered
battened	11	25	957	1	battened
batterer	10	27	1321	1	batterer
bettered	11	30	1183	1	bettered
bittered	11	27	1183	1	bittered
blattered	12	19	856	1	blattered
buttered	11	27	1262	1	buttered
mattered	11	24	1290	1	mattered
nattered	9	20	1162	1	nattered
pattered	11	27	1420	1	pattered
tattered	9	20	1144	1	tattered
yattered	12	23	953	1	yattered

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	82945	0.110	1624463.6
2	DLD Change Limit	82945	14	1.686	49196.3
3	Display Results	14	14	0.016	875.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	1.812	98615.3