# Elastic Search fuzzy query max expansions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-fuzzy-query-max-expansions/60693>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 16, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-fuzzy-query-max-expansions/60693 "2016-09-16T10:53:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![anilv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@anilv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anilv)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-fuzzy-query-max-expansions/60693/1 "2016-09-16T10:53:07Z")

</div>

Hello,

Can anyone explain how "max expansions" exactly works with the help of example? Also how can we calculate/guess the number to set as "max expansions"?

Thanks

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-fuzzy-query-max-expansions/60693/2 "2017-07-05T22:19:43Z")

</div>