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

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

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42 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
costars	9	42	1799	(None)
costar	8	55	1861	1	costar_
costard	10	41	1335	1	costard
costards	11	35	1078	1	costards
costers	9	41	2830	1	costers
cottars	9	44	1223	1	cottars
casters	9	47	2989	2	casters
castors	9	49	1943	2	castors
cestas	8	50	1854	2	cesta_s
coasters	10	43	1730	2	coasters
coaters	9	35	2577	2	coaters
collars	9	38	1657	2	collars
colters	9	35	2243	2	colters
contras	9	30	1560	2	contras
cooters	9	45	2571	2	cooters
copters	11	36	2127	2	copters
coshers	12	36	1817	2	coshers
costa	7	55	2373	2	costa__
costae	8	53	1968	2	costa_e
costal	8	54	1951	2	costa_l
costate	9	40	1927	2	costate
coster	8	43	3129	2	coster_
costmary	15	4	505	2	costmary
costs	7	72	3114	2	cost__s
cotans	8	13	1792	2	co_tans
cottar	8	46	1381	2	cottar_
cottas	8	46	1557	2	cotta_s
cotters	9	43	2343	2	cotters
cougars	10	3	842	2	cougars
couters	9	38	2728	2	couters
custard	10	38	997	2	custard
custards	11	33	838	2	custards
fosters	10	42	2009	2	fosters
hostas	9	45	1582	2	hosta_s
instars	7	4	1111	2	instars
mortars	9	34	1152	2	mortars
ottars	6	41	1222	2	_ottars
postals	9	37	1637	2	postals
posters	9	39	2799	2	posters
rosters	7	37	2753	2	rosters
stars	5	58	3657	2	__stars
zosters	16	30	1540	2	zosters

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	0.140	1276364.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	42	3.656	29450.5
3	Display Results	42	42	0.013	3230.8
	(SQL Overall)	178691	42	3.809	46912.8