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

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

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56 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
whelk	15	43	1106	(None)
whelks	16	36	732	1	whelks
whelky	19	31	497	1	whelky
whelm	13	46	1198	1	whelm
whelp	13	60	1209	1	whelp
chalk	14	48	1460	2	chalk
check	16	47	1471	2	check
cheek	14	51	1571	2	cheek
chela	10	39	1680	2	chela
elk	7	67	2612	2	__elk
heck	13	58	2649	2	_heck
held	8	53	3040	2	_held
hell	7	56	3789	2	_hell
helm	9	55	3002	2	_helm
helo	7	53	3285	2	_helo
help	9	53	2892	2	_help
holk	11	60	2794	2	_holk
hulk	11	53	2161	2	_hulk
sheik	12	25	1465	2	sheik
shelf	11	52	2111	2	shelf
shell	8	44	2412	2	shell
walk	11	56	2561	2	w_alk
weak	11	71	2630	2	w_eak
week	11	64	2815	2	w_eek
weel	7	58	3408	2	weel_
weld	8	47	2773	2	w_eld
well	7	58	3204	2	w_ell
welt	7	55	4786	2	w_elt
whack	17	48	1302	2	whack
whale	11	55	1743	2	whale
wheal	11	57	1618	2	wheal
wheals	12	45	1252	2	wheals
wheat	11	49	2457	2	wheat
whee	10	54	2959	2	whe_e
wheel	11	55	1533	2	wheel
wheels	12	38	1171	2	wheels
wheen	11	50	1605	2	wheen
wheep	13	62	1435	2	wheep
whelms	14	37	757	2	whelms
whelps	14	43	784	2	whelps
when	10	57	2304	2	whe_n
whens	11	46	1876	2	whens
where	11	70	1942	2	where
whet	10	51	3378	2	whe_t
whets	11	50	1961	2	whets
whew	13	76	1878	2	whe_w
whews	14	51	1449	2	whews
whey	13	50	1871	2	whe_y
wheys	14	59	1155	2	wheys
while	11	54	1869	2	while
whisk	15	45	1014	2	whisk
whole	11	44	1809	2	whole
wield	9	52	1391	2	wield
wreak	12	55	1327	2	wreak
wreck	14	46	1104	2	wreck
yelk	11	53	2000	2	_yelk

Search took 2 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	53800	0.093	1921408.6
2	DLD Change Limit	53800	56	1.736	30990.8
3	Display Results	56	56	0.013	4307.7
	(SQL Overall)	178691	56	1.842	97009.2