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

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

19 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
empowers	15	27	684	(None)
embowers	15	23	645	1	embowers
empower	14	21	703	1	empower_
impowers	15	29	682	1	impowers
embowels	15	22	413	2	embowels
embower	14	26	740	2	embower_
emoters	9	47	1287	2	em_oters
empalers	12	22	674	2	empalers
employers	16	4	412	2	employers
empowered	17	4	305	2	empowered
emptiers	12	7	519	2	emptiers
endowers	12	3	823	2	endowers
exposers	17	3	613	2	exposers
imbowers	15	29	509	2	imbowers
imposers	12	27	846	2	imposers
impower	14	24	712	2	impower_
mowers	11	32	1940	2	_m_owers
powers	11	38	2232	2	__powers
repowers	13	28	853	2	repowers

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	121059	0.406	440125.6
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	19	3.656	33112.4
3	Display Results	19	19	0.013	1461.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	19	4.075	43850.6