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

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

16 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
mainframe	16	4	206	(None)
mainframes	17	5	233	1	mainframes
airframe	13	4	429	2	_airframe
misframe	15	4	697	2	m_isframe
airframes	14	4	366	3	_airframes
enframe	12	4	736	3	__enframe
inflame	12	5	696	3	__inflame
macrame	13	3	871	3	ma__crame
mailgram	13	4	441	3	mailgram_
mailgrams	14	4	363	3	mailgrams
mandrake	15	4	600	3	ma_ndrake
mantram	11	40	1160	3	ma_ntram_
mantrams	12	28	896	3	ma_ntrams
misframed	17	4	562	3	m_isframed
misframes	16	4	663	3	m_isframes
reinflame	14	13	388	3	reinflame

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	0.420	425454.8
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	16	6.953	21378.0
3	Display Results	16	16	0.016	1000.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	7.389	24183.4