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

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

13 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
grayfish	18	4	448	(None)
crayfish	19	4	425	1	crayfish
grayish	14	3	781	1	gray_ish
crawfish	19	4	423	2	crawfish
draffish	18	4	455	2	draffish
garfish	14	17	920	2	g_arfish
giraffish	19	4	197	2	giraffish
goatfish	15	4	429	2	goatfish
grayfishes	20	4	363	2	grayfishes
greyish	14	3	517	2	grey_ish
gruffish	18	4	394	2	gruffish
raffish	16	5	884	2	_raffish
ratfish	13	3	877	2	_ratfish

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	121059	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	13	3.436	35232.5
3	Display Results	13	13	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	13	3.812	46875.9