# ElasticSearch partial word search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-partial-word-search/255888>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-partial-word-search/255888 "2020-11-18T18:55:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![gilleo24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gilleo24](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gilleo24)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-partial-word-search/255888/1 "2020-11-18T18:55:46Z")

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I'm trying to search for a result by using part of a word and not getting a result.

i.e. Bob's Wood Fried Pizzaeria

The term "Pizza" in my search application does not bring this result back. Neither does "Woo". But "Bob's Fried" does return it

Outside of using a wildcard search, is there a way to configure our fields to pull back this result based on those partial word search terms?

Here is the config for this field in our mapping JSON:

```
"name": {
  "type": "text",
  "analyzer": "english",
  "fields": {
    "keyword": {
      "type": "keyword",
      "ignore_above": 256
    }
  }
}

```

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-partial-word-search/255888/2 "2020-11-18T21:41:39Z")

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Deleted response. Misread your question.

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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:** [December 16, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-partial-word-search/255888/3 "2020-12-16T21:41:50Z")

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