# Can exact match get higher score than modified by character filter?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-exact-match-get-higher-score-than-modified-by-character-filter/296622>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-exact-match-get-higher-score-than-modified-by-character-filter/296622 "2022-02-08T15:31:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tomo\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-exact-match-get-higher-score-than-modified-by-character-filter/296622/3 "2022-02-12T13:33:27Z")

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I found several related posts.  
Have you see them?

> [@Exact matches have same score as fuzzy matches](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-matches-have-same-score-as-fuzzy-matches/211451):
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> Hi When executing match queries with fuzziness applied we are seeing exact matches have the same score as fuzzy matches. I have come across suggested solutions to promote exact matches by including additional queries which carry out an exact match and boosting those queries, these are here [Custom score for fuzzy matching based on Levenshtein distance score](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-score-for-fuzzy-matching-based-on-levenshtein-distance-score/125544/2) and here [Fuzziness & score computation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-score-computation/16492). We are currently using Elasticsearch 7.4, is this still the recommended solution or has anything f…

> [@Custom score for fuzzy matching based on Levenshtein distance score](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-score-for-fuzzy-matching-based-on-levenshtein-distance-score/125544/2):
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> The [match query accepts a fuzziness parameter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/fuzzy-match-query.html) which allows you to do fuzzy matching based on the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance (see the explanation for the fuzziness parameter in our docs [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/fuzziness.html)). Now, two things to keep in mind with fuzziness: the maximum edit distance that Elasticsearch supports is 2, so Smith and SSmithhh will never be a match. And, the default scoring is not quite how you want it to be. However, if a maximum edit distance of 2 is enough for your use case, then you can u…

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