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

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

10 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
festival	14	4	471	(None)
aestival	11	4	548	1	aestival
estival	10	3	632	1	_estival
festivals	15	4	337	1	festivals
bestial	9	3	1164	2	besti_al
festal	9	42	1356	2	fest__al
festive	13	3	977	2	festiv_e
festively	18	4	577	2	festively
fetial	9	57	1619	2	fe_ti_al
gestical	11	3	899	2	gestical

Search took 10 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	0.533	335255.2
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	10	8.906	13593.0
3	Display Results	10	10	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	10	9.439	18931.1