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

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

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
costume	11	5	785	(None)
costumed	13	6	503	1	costumed
costumer	12	7	510	1	costumer
costumes	12	5	801	1	costumes
costumey	15	6	352	1	costumey
coassume	12	10	396	2	coassume
consume	11	5	1013	2	consume
contuse	9	3	1141	2	contuse
costae	8	53	1968	2	cost_ae
costate	9	40	1927	2	costate
costive	12	3	1284	2	costive
costumers	13	7	485	2	costumers
costumery	16	6	311	2	costumery
costumier	13	4	342	2	costumier
couture	9	3	1061	2	couture
posture	9	3	1325	2	posture

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	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	16	3.200	33647.2
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	3.342	53468.3