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

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

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
heather	13	39	1485	(None)
feather	13	36	1350	1	feather
heater	9	48	2830	1	heat_er
heathen	13	34	1089	1	heathen
heathers	14	39	1473	1	heathers
heathery	17	34	908	1	heathery
heathier	14	3	834	1	heathier
leather	10	38	1578	1	leather
sheather	14	5	823	1	sheather
weather	13	35	1322	1	weather

Search took 2 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	69583	0.093	1921408.6
2	DLD Change Limit	69583	10	1.123	61961.7
3	Display Results	10	10	0.016	625.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	10	1.232	145041.4