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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “herdic” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3]

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33 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
herdic	12	31	1230	(None)
herdics	13	24	952	1	herdics
heroic	11	35	1692	1	heroic
bardic	11	3	1292	2	bardic
ceric	9	40	2309	2	cer_ic
dermic	11	45	1191	2	dermic
ferric	11	3	999	2	ferric
geodic	10	4	800	2	geodic
hectic	13	23	1152	2	hectic
hemic	12	57	1862	2	he_mic
heraldic	14	4	516	2	heraldic
herd	8	49	3306	2	herd__
herded	11	42	1564	2	herded
herder	10	45	1646	2	herder
herding	12	29	1512	2	herding
herds	9	64	2468	2	herd_s
herein	9	37	1779	2	herein
heretic	12	3	1483	2	heretic
hermit	11	5	1944	2	hermit
hernia	9	3	1229	2	hernia
heroics	12	29	1200	2	heroics
heroin	9	44	2059	2	heroin
hexadic	20	4	541	2	hexadic
hydric	15	22	795	2	hydric
medic	10	46	1965	2	me_dic
nordic	9	3	947	2	nordic
perdie	9	47	1851	2	perdie
terbic	10	4	1096	2	terbic
thermic	14	3	933	2	thermic
verdict	13	3	958	2	verdict
verdin	10	31	1302	2	verdin
veridic	13	3	814	2	veridic
xeric	14	43	1566	2	xer_ic

Search took 3 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	82551	0.360	496363.9
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	33	2.420	34112.0
3	Display Results	33	33	0.016	2062.5
	(SQL Overall)	178691	33	2.796	63909.5