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

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

23 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
guitarist	10	15	708	(None)
guitarists	11	13	465	1	guitarists
guitarfish	17	5	125	2	guitarfish
guitars	8	11	685	2	guitar_s_
sitarist	8	3	1528	2	_sitarist
apiarist	10	4	1205	3	api_arist
autarkist	13	4	510	3	au_tarkist
aviarist	11	4	1011	3	avi_arist
culturist	11	7	809	3	culturist
diarist	8	5	1711	3	_di_arist
futurist	11	4	828	3	fu_turist
guisards	10	4	360	3	guisards_
guitar	7	11	744	3	guitar___
guitguit	10	5	181	3	guitgui_t
guitguits	11	5	114	3	guitguits
lutanist	8	4	1027	3	lu_tanist
militarist	12	7	891	3	militarist
obituarist	12	5	320	3	obituarist
sitarists	9	4	937	3	_sitarists
summarist	13	11	676	3	summarist
ultraist	8	4	963	3	_ultraist
vitalist	11	3	1339	3	_vitalist
votarist	11	10	1216	3	_votarist

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	148641	0.156	1145455.1
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	23	9.063	16400.9
3	Display Results	23	23	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	23	9.219	19382.9