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

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

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
herbivore	17	13	252	(None)
herbivores	18	14	236	1	herbivores
herbivory	20	14	175	1	herbivory
herbivories	19	13	221	2	herbivories
carnivore	14	4	341	3	carnivore
herbicide	17	11	418	3	herbicide
herbier	12	3	959	3	herbi_er_
herbivorous	19	5	158	3	herbivorous
heritor	10	3	1056	3	her_itor_
heritors	11	3	1090	3	her_itors

Search took 8 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	10	7.080	20994.5
3	Display Results	10	10	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	10	7.236	24694.7