Elasticsearch fuzzy search scores the same for exact match and non-exact match

Tolga_Tezel · August 2, 2013, 8:59pm

I index two documents, one with text "testphone5" and one with text
"testphone 4s". I then perform a fuzzy query on the text field,
specifying "testphone5" as the value. Both documents get returned with the
exact same score. Why is this? Shouldn't the exact match have a higher
score than the non-exact match?

Gist to recreate the issue is below (it's really simple):

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/ttezel/6143316

gistfile1.txt

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/fuzzytest/' -d '
{
  settings: {
    index: {
        analysis: {
            analyzer: {
                default: {
                    type: "custom",
                    tokenizer: "uax_url_email",
                    filter: [ "lowercase" ]

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