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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “cowfish” 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
cowfish	18	3	643	(None)
codfish	16	3	716	1	codfish
blowfish	19	4	470	2	blowfish
boxfish	22	8	554	2	boxfish
catfish	15	5	902	2	catfish
clownish	16	4	380	2	clownish
coalfish	16	3	549	2	coalfish
cockish	18	3	850	2	cockish
coldish	13	9	930	2	coldish
coltish	12	13	1093	2	coltish
coolish	12	3	1252	2	coolish
cowfishes	20	4	572	2	cowfishes
coyish	14	37	1039	2	co_yish
crawfish	19	4	423	2	crawfish
dogfish	15	22	676	2	dogfish
foxfish	23	5	448	2	foxfish
hogfish	17	25	702	2	hogfish
jewfish	23	4	354	2	jewfish
lowish	12	3	1053	2	low_ish
oafish	12	13	1172	2	_oafish
offish	15	13	727	2	_offish
owlish	12	3	870	2	_owlish
sawfish	16	3	768	2	sawfish
townish	13	16	793	2	townish
wolfish	16	3	693	2	wolfish

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	3.296	32667.2
3	Display Results	25	25	0.016	1562.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	25	3.685	48491.5