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

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

18 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
bestowed	14	15	661	(None)
besnowed	14	12	440	1	besnowed
bestower	13	12	620	1	bestower
bestrowed	15	8	516	1	bestrowed
bellowed	14	15	860	2	bellowed
besmoked	17	40	541	2	besmoked
besotted	11	3	584	2	besotted
bested	9	49	2275	2	best__ed
bestow	11	4	946	2	bestow__
bestowal	13	4	451	2	bestowal
bestowers	14	13	532	2	bestowers
bestows	12	4	886	2	bestow_s
bestrewed	15	9	416	2	bestrewed
reshowed	15	11	706	2	reshowed
resowed	11	37	1225	2	res_owed
restoked	13	57	1053	2	restoked
restored	9	64	1719	2	restored
stowed	10	58	1720	2	__stowed

Search took 10 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	121059	0.296	603685.8
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	18	8.923	13567.1
3	Display Results	18	18	0.016	1125.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	9.235	19349.3