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

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

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.

20 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
programs	13	3	978	(None)
grograms	12	4	602	1	grograms
program	12	3	1169	1	program_
aerograms	12	4	815	2	aerograms
barograms	14	4	586	2	barograms
deprograms	16	5	546	2	deprograms
grogram	11	4	707	2	grogram_
isograms	11	4	647	2	isograms
pangrams	13	3	715	2	pangrams
picograms	16	4	572	2	picograms
pogroms	12	3	764	2	p_ogroms
prograde	12	4	718	2	prograde
programed	15	8	589	2	programed
programer	14	7	560	2	programer
programers	15	8	440	2	programers
programme	16	9	478	2	programme
programmes	17	8	493	2	programmes
progress	11	3	702	2	progress
reprograms	15	5	622	2	reprograms
trigrams	11	11	635	2	trigrams

Search took 4 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	121059	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	121059	20	3.453	35059.1
3	Display Results	20	20	0.016	1250.0
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	3.859	46305.0