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

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

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
ontologists	12	4	890	(None)
oncologists	14	4	807	1	oncologists
ontologist	11	4	1136	1	ontologist_
otologists	11	4	963	1	o_tologists
anthologists	16	4	803	2	anthologists
cetologists	14	4	916	2	cetologists
cytologists	17	4	801	2	cytologists
deontologists	15	5	592	2	deontologists
enologists	11	3	1062	2	en_ologists
fetologists	15	4	799	2	fetologists
monologists	14	4	1007	2	mon_ologists
neologists	11	3	977	2	_neologists
oncologist	13	4	1041	2	oncologist_
ontologies	11	3	988	2	ontologi_es
oologists	10	3	985	2	o__ologists
orologists	11	4	982	2	o_rologists
osteologists	13	4	676	2	osteologists
otologist	10	4	1281	2	o_tologist_

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	86808	0.340	525561.8
2	DLD Change Limit	86808	18	2.456	35345.3
3	Display Results	18	18	0.013	1384.6
	(SQL Overall)	178691	18	2.809	63613.7