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

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

17 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
caricaturist	16	6	353	(None)
caricaturists	17	6	264	1	caricaturists
caricatures	15	6	400	2	caricatures_
caricaturing	17	5	230	2	caricaturing
caricatural	15	5	278	3	caricatur_al
caricature	14	7	404	3	caricatur__e
caricatured	16	7	255	3	caricatur_ed
mariculturist	17	6	428	3	mariculturist
agriculturist	16	9	421	4	agriculturist
apiculturist	16	13	457	4	_apiculturist
arcatures	11	8	685	4	_ar_catures_
aviculturist	17	13	469	4	_aviculturist
citriculturist	18	7	350	4	citriculturist
manicurist	14	5	459	4	manic__urist
mariculturists	18	7	328	4	mariculturists
miniaturist	13	5	354	4	mini_aturist
sericulturist	15	14	423	4	sericulturist

Search took 7 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	124790	0.393	454684.5
2	DLD Change Limit	124790	17	6.576	18976.6
3	Display Results	17	17	0.016	1062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	6.985	25582.1