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

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

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88 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
lights	10	45	1991	(None)
alights	11	32	1143	1	alights
bights	12	44	1796	1	bights
blights	13	31	1021	1	blights
dights	11	40	1696	1	dights
eights	10	36	1898	1	eights
fights	13	38	1655	1	fights
flights	14	33	1098	1	flights
hights	13	37	1689	1	hights
lichts	11	37	1238	1	lichts
light	9	44	2960	1	light_
mights	12	35	1625	1	mights
nights	10	41	1772	1	nights
plights	13	29	931	1	plights
rights	10	40	1933	1	rights
sights	10	38	1801	1	sights
slights	11	28	1072	1	slights
tights	10	40	1585	1	tights
wights	13	33	1578	1	wights
alight	10	38	1686	2	alight_
aughts	10	47	1024	2	aughts
bight	11	87	2884	2	bight_
bigots	9	50	1513	2	bigots
blight	12	41	1462	2	blight_
blighty	16	35	684	2	blighty
brights	13	37	1023	2	brights
delights	13	4	733	2	delights
dight	10	40	2700	2	dight_
digits	8	41	1453	2	digits
eight	9	49	2805	2	eight_
eighth	13	33	1060	2	eighth
eighths	14	38	829	2	eighths
eighty	13	37	1160	2	eighty
fight	12	40	2709	2	fight_
flight	13	40	1481	2	flight_
flighty	17	34	743	2	flighty
frights	14	33	962	2	frights
gigots	8	39	1195	2	gigots
heights	14	39	944	2	heights
highs	12	54	1252	2	high_s
hight	12	53	2723	2	hight_
highth	12	38	915	2	highth
highths	13	35	800	2	highths
knights	15	4	565	2	knights
laighs	10	50	880	2	laigh_s
legits	7	13	1300	2	legits
liches	11	47	2429	2	liches
lichis	11	52	1259	2	lichis
licht	10	47	2349	2	licht_
lifts	8	57	1906	2	li_fts
ligans	7	68	1773	2	ligans
ligate	7	25	1925	2	ligate
ligates	8	23	1838	2	ligates
ligers	7	50	2204	2	ligers
lighted	12	29	1350	2	lighted
lighten	11	28	1152	2	lighten
lightens	12	25	1000	2	lightens
lighter	11	31	1344	2	lighter
lighters	12	31	1139	2	lighters
lightest	12	14	1035	2	lightest
lightish	15	5	662	2	lightish
lightly	14	36	902	2	lightly
lilts	5	58	2280	2	li_lts
limits	8	25	1414	2	limits
lints	5	71	3719	2	li_nts
lists	5	66	2869	2	li_sts
lithos	9	42	1255	2	lithos
lits	4	62	5249	2	li__ts
might	11	38	2708	2	might_
mighty	15	43	1020	2	mighty
nighs	9	50	1361	2	nigh_s
night	9	43	2785	2	night_
nighty	13	56	1127	2	nighty
oughts	10	47	1018	2	oughts
plight	12	35	1336	2	plight_
relights	12	4	805	2	relights
right	9	44	3050	2	right_
righto	10	41	1109	2	righto
righty	13	50	1183	2	righty
sighs	9	54	1674	2	sigh_s
sight	9	46	2929	2	sight_
sleights	12	27	591	2	sleights
slight	10	34	1600	2	slight_
tight	9	36	2650	2	tight_
uplights	14	16	505	2	uplights
weights	14	40	955	2	weights
wight	12	37	2557	2	wight_
wrights	14	31	899	2	wrights

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	0.126	1418182.5
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	88	2.513	32849.6
3	Display Results	88	88	0.016	5500.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	88	2.655	67303.6