# Adding Fuzziness to Bool Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843 "2018-08-17T08:01:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Duncan\_Mein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/duncan_mein/32/34580_2.png) [@Duncan\_Mein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Duncan_Mein)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843/1 "2018-08-17T08:01:04Z")

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Hi. I am very new to ElasticSearch so please be gentle 🙂

I have the following bool query which is working well for me:

"query":{  
"bool": {  
"should": [  
{"match":  
{"surname" : "JONES"}  
},  
{"match":  
{  
"person\_id" : "653463546"  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}  
}'

I am wanting to add some fuzziness into the surname search to catch typos or spelling mistakes but no matter where I try and add: "fuzziness": "AUTO", it seems to error.

If anyone has a sec, please can you help to get this working.

Cheers

Duncs

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**Author:** ![tamara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tamara/32/47095_2.png) [@tamara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tamara)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843/2 "2018-08-17T08:15:09Z")

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Here is the right way to do the fuzziness in your query.

```
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "match": {
            "surname" : {
              "query" : "JONES",
              "fuzziness": "AUTO"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "match": {
            "person_id": "653463546"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

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**Author:** ![Duncan\_Mein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/duncan_mein/32/34580_2.png) [@Duncan\_Mein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Duncan_Mein)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843/3 "2018-08-17T08:49:06Z")

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> [@tamara](#):
>
> 653463546

Thanks so much. Makes sense looking at that syntax. Cheers for the prompt reply.

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**Author:** ![tamara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tamara/32/47095_2.png) [@tamara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tamara)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843/4 "2018-08-17T08:59:37Z")

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You are welcome, if you want to see more examples of how you can use the match query you can see the link.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html)

Also a good query to take a look is the bool query, which make possible combination of queries.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-fuzziness-to-bool-query/144843/5 "2018-09-14T09:03:31Z")

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