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

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

22 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
mellowing	15	4	589	(None)
bellowing	15	4	719	1	bellowing
fellowing	16	5	592	1	fellowing
yellowing	16	5	507	1	yellowing
allowing	12	36	909	2	_allowing
billowing	15	4	587	2	billowing
elbowing	14	3	501	2	_elbowing
fallowing	16	6	643	2	fallowing
following	16	6	575	2	following
hallowing	16	7	694	2	hallowing
helloing	12	15	912	2	hello_ing
hollowing	16	7	593	2	hollowing
melling	10	28	2262	2	mell__ing
meowing	13	6	859	2	me__owing
pillowing	15	4	549	2	pillowing
reflowing	16	3	652	2	reflowing
reglowing	14	3	617	2	reglowing
replowing	15	3	741	2	replowing
sallowing	13	5	738	2	sallowing
tallowing	13	6	629	2	tallowing
wallowing	16	6	607	2	wallowing
willowing	16	4	532	2	willowing

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	121436	0.140	1276364.3
2	DLD Change Limit	121436	22	3.156	38477.8
3	Display Results	22	22	0.013	1692.3
	(SQL Overall)	178691	22	3.309	54001.5