# Elasticsearch tokens with adjacent concat while preserving other words

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-tokens-with-adjacent-concat-while-preserving-other-words/355399>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-tokens-with-adjacent-concat-while-preserving-other-words/355399 "2024-03-14T11:14:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![bhavyajain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyajain/32/122470_2.png) [@bhavyajain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyajain)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-tokens-with-adjacent-concat-while-preserving-other-words/355399/1 "2024-03-14T11:14:24Z")

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I want to create a custom analyzer which generates tokens so that in each token, one pair of adjacent words are concatenated while preserving rest of the query string.

Example Query : "quick brown fox jumps"  
Generated tokens: "quickbrown fox jumps", "quick brownfox jumps", "quick brown foxjumps"

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-tokens-with-adjacent-concat-while-preserving-other-words/355399/2 "2024-03-14T11:45:12Z")

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It's looking close to what shingles are doing... Have a look at [Shingle token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-shingle-tokenfilter.html)

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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 11, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-tokens-with-adjacent-concat-while-preserving-other-words/355399/3 "2024-04-11T11:45:41Z")

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