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

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

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72 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
mewling	13	32	951	(None)
melling	10	28	2262	1	melling
mewing	12	39	1420	1	mew_ing
bawling	13	38	1386	2	bawling
belling	10	38	2507	2	belling
bowling	13	39	1649	2	bowling
ceiling	10	34	1672	2	ceiling
celling	10	39	2126	2	celling
cowling	13	40	1741	2	cowling
dealing	9	43	2323	2	dealing
dewing	11	41	1570	2	dew_ing
feeling	11	36	1707	2	feeling
felling	11	33	2113	2	felling
fowling	14	37	1311	2	fowling
gelling	9	32	1976	2	gelling
healing	11	39	2296	2	healing
heeling	11	36	1851	2	heeling
heiling	11	36	1636	2	heiling
helling	11	46	2322	2	helling
hewing	13	45	1424	2	hew_ing
howling	14	34	1316	2	howling
jelling	15	35	1661	2	jelling
jeweling	19	3	548	2	jeweling
jewing	17	44	1142	2	jew_ing
keeling	12	35	1512	2	keeling
kegling	13	30	936	2	kegling
mailing	10	29	2334	2	mailing
malling	10	36	2366	2	malling
marling	10	33	2276	2	marling
mauling	10	33	1568	2	mauling
mawing	12	40	2080	2	maw_ing
meaning	10	39	1869	2	meaning
medaling	12	19	1224	2	medaling
meddling	13	25	793	2	meddling
meeting	10	33	1496	2	meeting
melding	11	34	1427	2	melding
melting	10	33	1775	2	melting
mending	11	40	1868	2	mending
mensing	10	39	1510	2	mensing
meouing	10	5	920	2	meouing
meowing	13	6	859	2	meowing
merging	11	27	1175	2	merging
merlin	8	39	1668	2	merlin_
merlins	9	30	1580	2	merlins
meshing	13	45	1381	2	meshing
messing	10	39	1639	2	messing
metaling	11	16	1371	2	metaling
meting	9	43	2059	2	me_ting
metring	10	32	1528	2	metring
milling	10	32	2368	2	milling
moiling	10	34	1766	2	moiling
mowing	12	41	1909	2	mow_ing
muling	9	35	1988	2	m_uling
mulling	10	38	1999	2	mulling
pealing	10	41	2320	2	pealing
peeling	10	29	1987	2	peeling
reeling	8	31	2686	2	reeling
sealing	8	35	2856	2	sealing
seeling	8	35	2200	2	seeling
selling	8	32	2583	2	selling
sewing	10	38	1962	2	sew_ing
smelling	11	37	1272	2	smelling
telling	8	33	2108	2	telling
tewing	10	39	1482	2	tew_ing
vealing	11	42	1742	2	vealing
veiling	11	36	1529	2	veiling
wawling	14	38	1096	2	wawling
welling	11	29	2031	2	welling
yawling	14	36	918	2	yawling
yealing	11	27	1638	2	yealing
yelling	11	35	1670	2	yelling
yowling	14	36	1022	2	yowling

Search took 5 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	107671	0.140	1276364.3
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	72	3.843	28017.4
3	Display Results	72	72	0.016	4500.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	72	3.999	44683.9