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

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

25 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
expends	17	21	708	(None)
expands	17	19	573	1	expands
expend	16	24	750	1	expend_
extends	15	22	711	1	extends
appends	12	3	639	2	appends
depends	11	34	899	2	depends
emends	9	57	1143	2	e_mends
exceeds	17	3	384	2	exceeds
expand	16	23	657	2	expand_
expects	18	6	688	2	expects
expels	15	4	717	2	expe_ls
expended	19	13	654	2	expended
expender	18	13	684	2	expender
expenders	19	14	596	2	expenders
expense	16	12	787	2	expense
expenses	17	13	837	2	expenses
experts	16	5	906	2	experts
expounds	18	4	323	2	expounds
extend	14	26	752	2	extend_
extents	14	26	1017	2	extents
impends	12	37	680	2	impends
pends	8	55	2719	2	__pends
perpends	13	22	775	2	perpends
spends	9	47	1447	2	_spends
upends	9	43	876	2	_upends

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	107671	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	25	3.376	31893.1
3	Display Results	25	25	0.013	1923.1
	(SQL Overall)	178691	25	3.779	47285.3