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

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

14 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
ghostly	14	35	510	(None)
ghastly	14	35	456	1	ghastly
ghosty	13	46	721	1	ghost_y
hostly	12	42	1086	1	_hostly
costly	11	40	1233	2	_costly
ghost	9	63	1876	2	ghost__
ghosted	12	3	627	2	ghosted
ghosts	10	48	927	2	ghost_s
gristly	11	18	733	2	gristly
grossly	11	7	598	2	grossly
hotly	11	58	1548	2	_ho_tly
mostly	11	31	1094	2	_mostly
shortly	13	38	757	2	shortly
thistly	13	9	596	2	thistly

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	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	14	2.903	37089.6
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	3.263	54762.8