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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “characteristic” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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.

16 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
characteristic	20	7	177	(None)
characteristics	21	7	112	1	characteristics
characteries	19	7	496	4	characteri__es
charactering	20	5	371	4	characteri__ng
characterize	28	6	325	4	characteri__ze
characterized	30	6	237	4	characteri_zed
characterizes	29	6	285	4	characteri_zes
characterizing	31	6	170	4	characterizing
characters	17	4	550	4	character_s___
catachrestic	18	6	139	5	c_atac_hrestic
character	16	4	588	5	character_____
charactered	19	5	287	5	character___ed
characterful	22	6	147	5	character__ful
characterless	20	6	142	5	character_less
charactery	20	4	342	5	character____y
clavieristic	19	6	185	5	c__lavieristic

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	95024	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	16	6.046	15716.8
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	6.188	28877.0