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

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

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
congress	11	3	807	(None)
compress	14	3	905	2	compress
confess	12	39	990	2	con_fess
congees	10	35	1792	2	cong_ees
congers	10	42	2323	2	cong_ers
conges	9	49	2817	2	cong_e_s
congest	10	46	1877	2	cong_est
congests	11	35	1038	2	cong_ests
congoes	10	36	1730	2	congoe_s
congrats	11	3	1143	2	congrats
congressed	14	4	546	2	congressed
congresses	13	4	802	2	congresses
ingress	8	3	865	2	_ingress
longness	9	3	855	2	longness
mongrels	11	3	533	2	mongrels
ogress	7	52	950	2	_o_gress
songless	9	21	882	2	songless

Search took 5 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	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	17	3.750	32282.4
3	Display Results	17	17	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	4.140	43162.1