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

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

20 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
exhort	16	4	1080	(None)
exhorts	17	4	631	1	exhorts
export	15	4	1218	1	export
extort	13	5	1397	1	extort
cohort	11	107	2026	2	cohort
dehort	10	46	1810	2	dehort
effort	12	3	862	2	effort
ephor	10	3	1001	2	ephor_
ephori	11	3	960	2	ephori
ephors	11	3	1140	2	ephors
escort	8	46	1648	2	escort
exert	12	46	2414	2	ex_ert
exhorted	19	3	501	2	exhorted
exhorter	18	4	535	2	exhorter
expert	15	5	1535	2	expert
exports	16	4	798	2	exports
exsert	13	4	1436	2	exsert
extorts	14	4	775	2	extorts
short	8	50	4053	2	_short
whort	11	46	2369	2	_whort

Search took 3 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	82551	0.343	520965.0
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	20	2.343	35233.0
3	Display Results	20	20	0.016	1250.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	2.702	66132.9