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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “cloak” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3]

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89 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
cloak	11	52	1401	(None)
cloaks	12	44	1126	1	cloaks
clock	13	49	1798	1	clock
clonk	11	44	1744	1	clonk
croak	11	52	1663	1	croak
becloak	15	4	504	2	becloak
bleak	11	59	1538	2	bleak
bloat	7	52	2992	2	bloat
block	13	49	1784	2	block
chock	16	43	1661	2	chock
chook	14	60	1504	2	chook
clack	13	47	2017	2	clack
clad	7	62	2582	2	cl_ad
clag	7	59	2457	2	cl_ag
clam	8	63	3229	2	cl_am
clan	6	56	3392	2	cl_an
clank	11	47	1952	2	clank
clap	8	64	2904	2	cl_ap
claw	9	56	2434	2	cl_aw
clay	9	59	2741	2	cl_ay
clean	7	54	2041	2	clean
clear	7	62	1905	2	clear
cleat	7	63	3506	2	cleat
cleek	11	55	1491	2	cleek
clerk	11	58	1245	2	clerk
click	13	52	1795	2	click
clink	11	53	2004	2	clink
cloaca	10	3	726	2	cloaca
cloaked	14	36	854	2	cloaked
clocks	14	49	1623	2	clocks
clod	7	61	2461	2	clo_d
clods	8	53	2086	2	clods
clog	7	61	2324	2	clo_g
clogs	8	55	1955	2	clogs
clomb	11	57	1470	2	clomb
clomp	11	56	1570	2	clomp
clon	6	62	3248	2	clo_n
clonal	8	3	1091	2	clonal
clone	7	57	2816	2	clone
clonks	12	50	1347	2	clonks
clons	7	52	2813	2	clons
cloot	7	61	2705	2	cloot
clop	8	69	2989	2	clo_p
clops	9	59	2485	2	clops
close	7	64	2522	2	close
clot	6	65	4242	2	clo_t
cloth	10	58	1754	2	cloth
clots	7	56	2764	2	clots
cloud	8	67	1642	2	cloud
clour	7	66	1728	2	clour
clout	7	53	3046	2	clout
clove	10	56	1944	2	clove
clown	10	52	1473	2	clown
cloy	9	66	2383	2	clo_y
cloys	10	49	1694	2	cloys
cloze	16	55	1754	2	cloze
cluck	13	49	1489	2	cluck
clunk	11	42	1508	2	clunk
coal	6	69	3925	2	c_oal
coat	6	75	5835	2	c_oat
coax	13	69	2298	2	c_oax
cock	12	63	3290	2	c_ock
cola	6	65	4139	2	cola_
colas	7	54	3677	2	colas
conk	10	65	3144	2	c_onk
cook	10	72	3693	2	c_ook
cork	10	66	3569	2	c_ork
creak	11	54	1843	2	creak
croaks	12	58	1298	2	croaks
croaky	15	52	848	2	croaky
crock	13	59	2199	2	crock
crook	11	52	1757	2	crook
flak	11	60	2617	2	fl_ak
float	8	59	2857	2	float
flock	14	47	1742	2	flock
gloam	8	60	1594	2	gloam
gloat	6	54	2768	2	gloat
leak	8	62	3371	2	_leak
load	5	67	3060	2	_load
loaf	7	67	3490	2	_loaf
loam	6	56	3048	2	_loam
loan	4	74	3645	2	_loan
lock	10	61	3436	2	_lock
look	8	73	3347	2	_look
oak	7	62	3865	2	__oak
plonk	11	46	1398	2	plonk
soak	8	72	2766	2	_soak
troak	9	52	1357	2	troak
uncloak	13	6	547	2	uncloak

Search took 3 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	53800	0.313	570897.8
2	DLD Change Limit	53800	89	1.703	31591.3
3	Display Results	89	89	0.030	2966.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	89	2.046	87336.8