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

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

16 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
surgeon	8	3	700	(None)
burgeon	10	3	643	1	burgeon
sturgeon	9	4	330	1	sturgeon
surgeons	9	4	703	1	surgeons
bourgeon	11	4	468	2	bourgeon
burgeons	11	4	605	2	burgeons
dudgeon	10	13	414	2	dudgeon
dungeon	9	13	455	2	dungeon
gudgeon	10	12	374	2	gudgeon
sturgeons	10	4	339	2	sturgeons
surge	6	50	2769	2	surge__
surged	8	41	1888	2	surge_d
surger	7	43	2009	2	surge_r
surgers	8	35	1748	2	surgers
surgery	11	31	921	2	surgery
surges	7	39	2459	2	surge_s

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	0.376	475242.0
2	DLD Change Limit	107671	16	3.110	34620.9
3	Display Results	16	16	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	16	3.486	51259.6