# Elasticsearch n gram search with multiple values

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-n-gram-search-with-multiple-values/53287>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 20, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-n-gram-search-with-multiple-values/53287 "2016-06-20T08:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![baneshbanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@baneshbanna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baneshbanna)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-n-gram-search-with-multiple-values/53287/1 "2016-06-20T08:54:34Z")

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How to write query for elastic search n gram search with multiple values.  
N gram search working for single value..It is not working with below query

Singe value search:  
{  
"query": {  
"match": {  
"text": "Adler"  
}  
}  
}

Muliple values search :  
{  
"query": {  
"match": {  
"text": ["Adler","ichte"]  
}  
}  
}

this is my mapping

PUT /my\_index  
{  
"settings": {  
"analysis": {  
"filter": {  
"trigrams\_filter": {  
"type": "ngram",  
"min\_gram": 3,  
"max\_gram": 3  
}  
},  
"analyzer": {  
"trigrams": {  
"type": "custom",  
"tokenizer": "standard",  
"filter": [  
"lowercase",  
"trigrams\_filter"  
]  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"mappings": {  
"my\_type": {  
"properties": {  
"text": {  
"type": "string",  
"analyzer": "trigrams"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

sample data like this

POST /my\_index/my\_type/\_bulk  
{ "index": { "\_id": 1 }}  
{ "text": "Aussprachewörterbuch" }  
{ "index": { "\_id": 2 }}  
{ "text": "Militärgeschichte" }  
{ "index": { "\_id": 3 }}  
{ "text": "Weißkopfseeadler" }  
{ "index": { "\_id": 4 }}  
{ "text": "Weltgesundheitsorganisation" }  
{ "index": { "\_id": 5 }}  
{ "text": "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" }

Please suggest.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-n-gram-search-with-multiple-values/53287/2 "2017-07-05T22:42:23Z")

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