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

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

10 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
specify	17	6	499	(None)
opacify	17	4	365	2	opacify
pacify	16	6	747	2	_pacify
respecify	19	4	313	2	respecify
special	11	3	1030	2	special
specie	10	4	1222	2	speci_e
species	11	3	1413	2	species
specific	17	4	470	2	specific
speechify	22	5	193	2	speechify
spicily	14	3	865	2	spicily

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	107671	0.390	458182.1
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	10	3.483	30913.3
3	Display Results	10	10	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	10	3.873	46137.6