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

Here are the results of your fuzzy-string dictionary search for “videographers” with Change Limit: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

14 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
videographers	23	5	340	(None)
videographer	22	5	432	1	videographer_
videographies	23	5	442	2	videographies
biogeographers	23	8	291	3	biogeographers
biographers	19	15	511	3	bi__ographers
demographers	21	5	456	3	__demographers
discographers	22	5	319	3	discographers
geographers	18	5	478	3	__geographers
hydrographers	26	5	416	3	hydrographers
ideographies	19	5	577	3	_ideographies
ideographs	17	4	678	3	_ideograph__s
lithographers	22	5	390	3	lithographers
paleographers	21	11	424	3	paleographers
videography	24	5	443	3	videograph__y

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	65874	0.313	570897.8
2	DLD Change Limit	65874	14	2.843	23170.6
3	Display Results	14	14	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	3.156	56619.5