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

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

15 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
sawfly	15	3	513	(None)
barfly	14	33	965	2	barfly
dayfly	16	3	381	2	dayfly
gadfly	14	3	466	2	gadfly
mayfly	17	3	440	2	mayfly
rawly	11	51	1583	2	raw_ly
sadly	9	45	1912	2	sa_dly
safely	12	24	939	2	safely
sagely	10	28	1138	2	sagely
sally	8	51	2971	2	sa_lly
sandfly	14	3	564	2	sandfly
sanely	9	31	1461	2	sanely
sawney	12	38	760	2	sawney
shadfly	17	3	378	2	shadfly
waffly	18	30	543	2	waffly

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	82551	0.123	1452772.4
2	DLD Change Limit	82551	15	2.813	29346.2
3	Display Results	15	15	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	15	2.936	60862.1