# Elasticsearch - Why does Elastic does not support Phrase with fuzziness

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-why-does-elastic-does-not-support-phrase-with-fuzziness/162205>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 27, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-why-does-elastic-does-not-support-phrase-with-fuzziness/162205 "2018-12-27T06:26:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-why-does-elastic-does-not-support-phrase-with-fuzziness/162205/4 "2019-01-15T16:42:30Z")

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> [@Nikesh](#):
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> i wonder why Elastic doesn't support this feature.

The short answer is because that it can be very expensive to run.  
As suggested [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complexphrasequeryparser-part-of-lucene-but-not-elasticsearch/9050), ComplexPhraseQuery is the Lucene query type that can support it but you'd need to write a plugin to expose in elasticsearch.

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