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

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

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.

18 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
linking	12	38	1825	(None)
blinking	15	35	1062	1	blinking
clinking	15	36	1166	1	clinking
dinking	13	36	1828	1	dinking
finking	15	40	1660	1	finking
inking	11	51	1904	1	_inking
jinking	19	36	1354	1	jinking
kinking	11	36	1515	1	kinking
licking	14	41	1828	1	licking
liking	11	43	1958	1	li_king
lining	7	45	2680	1	lin_ing
linting	8	38	2098	1	linting
oinking	12	37	1471	1	oinking
pinking	14	39	1894	1	pinking
plinking	15	36	1124	1	plinking
sinking	12	33	2054	1	sinking
slinking	13	34	1298	1	slinking
winking	15	33	1796	1	winking

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	69583	0.203	880251.2
2	DLD Change Limit	69583	18	2.250	30925.8
3	Display Results	18	18	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	2.453	72845.9