# Apply fuzzy match only on short search arguments?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apply-fuzzy-match-only-on-short-search-arguments/276427
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 19, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apply-fuzzy-match-only-on-short-search-arguments/276427 "2021-06-19T00:31:37Z")
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### Author:  [@rocketman0739](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rocketman0739)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apply-fuzzy-match-only-on-short-search-arguments/276427/1 "2021-06-19T00:31:37Z")
I'm having a problem getting the “too complex to determinize” exception. The index is running a synonym graph filter. The problem happens when I send a longish query which 1) includes several words that have synonyms, and 2) requests fuzzy matching on search suggestions.
It would be great to have a direct fix for this, but in the absence of that, being able to only fuzzy match on short-to-medium search arguments would help a lot. Can I tell Elastic to disable fuzzy matching if (say) the search argument has more than three tokens, or do I have to process the arguments before feeding them to Elastic?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apply-fuzzy-match-only-on-short-search-arguments/276427/2 "2021-07-17T00:32:08Z")
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