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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “employers” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4]

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.

13 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
employers	16	4	412	(None)
employees	16	5	339	1	employees
employer	15	6	471	1	employer_
employes	15	5	594	1	employe_s
deployers	15	4	506	2	deployers
employe	14	7	636	2	employe__
employed	16	5	495	2	employe_d
employee	15	5	520	2	employe_e
employs	14	5	552	2	employ__s
empowers	15	27	684	2	emp_owers
exploders	19	4	417	2	exploders
explorers	18	4	374	2	explorers
implorers	13	12	441	2	implorers

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	121436	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	13	3.080	39427.3
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	3.470	51496.0