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

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

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.

20 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
witticism	16	9	382	(None)
witticisms	17	9	347	1	witticisms
atticism	12	6	853	2	_atticism
atticisms	13	6	741	3	_atticisms
atticist	10	8	1134	3	_atticist
biblicism	17	4	354	3	biblicism
civicism	17	10	535	3	ci_vicism
criticism	15	5	684	3	criticism
eroticism	13	21	918	3	eroticism
exoticism	20	4	649	3	exoticism
gothicism	17	4	379	3	gothicism
iotacism	12	4	689	3	_iotacism
metricism	15	5	751	3	metricism
mysticism	18	4	538	3	mysticism
poeticism	15	4	833	3	poeticism
stoicism	12	4	687	3	_stoicism
vorticism	16	4	639	3	vorticism
wittiest	11	27	1152	3	witti_est
wittiness	12	19	722	3	wittiness
wittings	12	32	873	3	wittings_

Search took 8 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	148641	0.453	394461.4
2	DLD Change Limit	148641	20	6.986	21277.0
3	Display Results	20	20	0.000
	(SQL Overall)	178691	20	7.439	24020.8