# ElasticSearch (Levenstein)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-levenstein/221013>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-levenstein/221013 "2020-02-26T10:44:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinaychila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8baadc/32.png) [@vinaychila](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinaychila)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-levenstein/221013/1 "2020-02-26T10:44:07Z")

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Hi,

Source: vinay  
Target: vinayc

When I searched using above fields in online Levelstein we are getting score as: 84%.  
check using the following link: [https://awsm-tools.com/text/levenshtein-distance](https://awsm-tools.com/text/levenshtein-distance)

When I searched in elastic against the following document and query am getting score as: "\_score": 0.80259144, which is different from levenstein.

Query:

GET levensteinindex/\_search  
{  
"query": {  
"match": {  
"name":{  
"query":"vinay",  
"fuzziness":"Auto"  
}  
}  
}  
}

# index with document:

PUT /levensteinindex/\_doc/1  
{  
"name": "vinay"  
}

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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:** [March 25, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-levenstein/221013/2 "2020-03-25T10:44:10Z")

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