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

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

8 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
pretraining	14	4	650	(None)
retraining	11	3	1024	1	_retraining
detraining	12	6	767	2	_detraining
pertaining	13	4	799	2	pert_aining
preordaining	16	5	251	2	preordaining
refraining	14	3	726	2	_refraining
restraining	12	4	753	2	_restraining
retaining	10	21	1473	2	_ret_aining

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	0.356	501941.0
2	DLD Change Limit	86808	8	2.236	38822.9
3	Display Results	8	8	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	8	2.592	68939.4