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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “curlily” 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
curlily	12	3	838	(None)
burlily	12	3	771	1	burlily
surlily	10	3	999	1	surlily
cornily	12	4	1085	2	cornily
crusily	12	19	909	2	crusily
cully	10	55	2046	2	cu_l_ly
curably	14	20	1077	2	curably
curlier	9	33	1418	2	curlier
curling	10	43	2018	2	curling
curly	10	53	2123	2	cur__ly
curtly	11	4	928	2	cur_tly
cushily	15	25	792	2	cushily
furrily	13	3	760	2	furrily
murkily	16	28	711	2	murkily
pursily	12	3	821	2	pursily
scurvily	16	4	377	2	scurvily
uglily	10	3	619	2	_uglily

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	17	3.546	30364.1
3	Display Results	17	17	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	17	3.672	48663.1