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

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

21 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
payer	10	51	2572	(None)
gayer	9	45	1919	1	gayer
hayer	11	46	2024	1	hayer
layer	8	46	2647	1	layer
pacer	9	61	3161	1	pacer
pager	8	47	2820	1	pager
paler	7	54	3693	1	paler
paper	9	51	2866	1	paper
parer	7	58	3990	1	parer
pater	7	47	4072	1	pater
paver	10	42	2583	1	paver
pawer	10	44	2297	1	pawer
payed	11	59	2593	1	payed
payee	10	55	2472	1	payee
payers	11	46	2182	1	payers
payor	10	54	1384	1	payor
player	11	52	1521	1	player
plyer	10	62	1433	1	plyer
prayer	11	48	1529	1	prayer
pryer	10	44	1531	1	pryer
sayer	8	49	2655	1	sayer

Search took 1 second 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	28756	0.060	2978183.3
2	DLD Change Limit	28756	21	0.453	63479.0
3	Display Results	21	21	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	21	0.513	348325.5