# Boosting by word?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-by-word/5532>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 6, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-by-word/5532 "2011-10-06T20:03:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Eduardo\_da\_Fo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_eduardo_da_fo/32/3112_2.png) [@Carlos\_Eduardo\_da\_Fo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Eduardo_da_Fo)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-by-word/5532/1 "2011-10-06T20:03:07Z")

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Supposing I have a field with the content "foo bar baz" and I search {text:  
"foo baz", boost: 5.0}. Will the boost be applied to each word (5 to each)  
found?

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Carlos Eduardo da Fonseca

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-by-word/5532/2 "2017-07-06T03:52:40Z")

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