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

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

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
zapping	21	32	1147	(None)
capping	14	38	1967	1	capping
dapping	13	37	1479	1	dapping
gapping	13	42	1478	1	gapping
happing	15	38	1723	1	happing
lapping	12	41	1702	1	lapping
mapping	14	34	1399	1	mapping
napping	12	35	1418	1	napping
rapping	12	36	1910	1	rapping
sapping	12	35	1931	1	sapping
tapping	12	33	1713	1	tapping
wapping	15	35	1460	1	wapping
yapping	15	34	1261	1	yapping
zipping	21	29	1057	1	zipping

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	69583	0.110	1624463.6
2	DLD Change Limit	69583	14	1.360	51164.0
3	Display Results	14	14	0.013	1076.9
	(SQL Overall)	178691	14	1.483	120492.9