# Elasticsearch Fuzzy Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fuzzy-query/170782>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fuzzy-query/170782 "2019-03-04T19:37:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zhengcong\_Yin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zhengcong_yin/32/62960_2.png) [@Zhengcong\_Yin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zhengcong_Yin)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fuzzy-query/170782/1 "2019-03-04T19:37:13Z")

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I am performing a fuzzy query on my documents and works well. I am curious about the logic behind it. Is the final score calculated in the notion of "Soft TF-IDF", which essentially use the edit similarity as the second similarity function?

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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:** [April 1, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fuzzy-query/170782/2 "2019-04-01T19:37:16Z")

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