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

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

14 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
laggards	11	30	705	(None)
haggards	14	36	676	1	haggards
laggard	10	34	762	1	laggard_
saggards	11	39	749	1	saggards
haggard	13	37	718	2	haggard_
laggardly	15	4	267	2	laggardly
laggers	9	42	1624	2	lagger_s
laniards	9	6	731	2	laniards
lanyards	12	6	639	2	lanyards
niggards	11	4	412	2	niggards
saggard	10	35	895	2	saggard_
saggars	9	36	1068	2	saggar_s
sluggards	12	4	228	2	sluggards
staggards	12	4	412	2	staggards

Search took 4 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	121059	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	14	3.530	34294.3
3	Display Results	14	14	0.016	875.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	3.936	45399.1