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

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

16 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
exospheric	24	5	354	(None)
biospheric	19	5	425	2	biospheric
exosphere	21	9	416	2	exospher_e
exospheres	22	9	442	2	exospheres
mesospheric	20	5	331	2	mesospheric
aspheric	15	4	798	3	__aspheric
atmospheric	20	5	297	3	atmospheric
ecosphere	16	10	480	3	ecospher_e
ecospheres	17	9	513	3	ecospheres
exosporia	18	5	403	3	exosp_oria
exoteric	17	4	680	3	exo__teric
exothermic	24	5	339	3	exo_thermic
hemispheric	23	5	287	3	hemispheric
ionospheric	18	5	347	3	ionospheric
phosphoric	22	6	644	3	phosphoric
spheric	14	5	1007	3	___spheric

Search took 7 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	140603	0.433	412681.3
2	DLD Change Limit	140603	16	5.703	24654.2
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	6.152	29046.0