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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “physician” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

14 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
physician	19	5	389	(None)
physicians	20	5	328	1	physicians
physical	18	4	570	2	physic_al
physicist	19	5	518	2	physicist
musician	12	4	669	3	_musician
nonphysician	22	14	249	3	~~non~~physician
patrician	13	6	747	3	patrician
physic	16	28	847	3	physic___
physicals	19	4	369	3	physicals
physicists	20	5	392	3	physicists
physicked	24	4	211	3	physicked
physicking	25	10	243	3	physicking
physics	17	26	596	3	physic__s
prosimian	13	6	600	3	prosimian

Search took 7 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	0.423	422437.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	14	6.033	24638.0
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	6.456	27678.3