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

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

15 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
earlock	13	3	692	(None)
earlocks	14	3	569	1	earlocks
oarlock	13	3	612	1	oarlock
warlock	16	3	629	1	warlock
armlock	15	4	431	2	_armlock
charlock	19	4	439	2	charlock
daglock	15	4	426	2	daglock
deadlock	16	4	423	2	deadlock
earlobe	9	4	654	2	earlobe
elflock	16	4	297	2	elflock
hairlock	17	5	402	2	hairlock
headlock	18	4	481	2	headlock
oarlocks	14	4	510	2	oarlocks
padlock	16	6	581	2	padlock
warlocks	17	3	536	2	warlocks

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	107671	0.143	1249587.4
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	15	4.123	26114.7
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	4.282	41730.7