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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “headmastership” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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.

15 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
headmastership	25	10	128	(None)
headmasterships	26	11	117	1	headmasterships
headmasters	17	17	430	3	headmasters___
headmaster	16	20	464	4	headmaster____
mastership	17	5	562	4	____mastership
postmastership	23	14	192	4	postmastership
headmistress	18	6	144	5	headmistres__s
headmistresses	20	6	118	5	headmistresses
headwaiters	18	5	262	5	headwaiters___
headwaters	17	5	425	5	headwa_ters___
leadership	16	9	416	5	lead____ership
loadmasters	14	5	331	5	loadmasters___
masterships	18	5	536	5	____masterships
postmasterships	24	14	181	5	postmasterships
readership	16	10	456	5	read____ership

Search took 7 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	95024	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	95024	15	6.576	14450.1
3	Display Results	15	15	0.016	937.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	6.718	26598.8