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

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

25 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
clerics	11	4	933	(None)
cleric	10	6	1213	1	cleric_
clerids	10	4	909	1	clerids
calorics	12	28	1046	2	calorics
celeriacs	13	4	411	2	celeriacs
celeries	10	3	1631	2	celeries
cercis	10	46	1449	2	c_ercis
cerias	8	33	2198	2	c_erias
ceric	9	40	2309	2	c_eric_
chemics	16	34	958	2	chemics
claries	9	34	2220	2	claries
clergies	11	3	790	2	clergies
clerical	12	4	823	2	clerical
clericals	13	4	535	2	clericals
clerid	9	3	1241	2	cleri_d
clerisy	12	4	682	2	clerisy
clerks	12	45	884	2	cler_ks
clevis	11	5	896	2	clevi_s
clinics	11	33	874	2	clinics
clitics	11	27	997	2	clitics
cretics	11	29	1165	2	cretics
fluerics	13	4	539	2	fluerics
icterics	12	4	705	2	icterics
lyrics	11	35	794	2	_lyrics
sferics	12	3	613	2	sferics

Search took 4 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	107671	0.373	479064.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	25	3.063	35152.1
3	Display Results	25	25	0.016	1562.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	25	3.452	51764.5