# Exact word search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457 "2020-04-23T11:34:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@smiler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smiler)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457/1 "2020-04-23T11:34:05Z")
Hi.
I need help with exact search. In some cases I need to search phrase includes word, in some cases I need to find documents where field value matches exactly search query.
For example, I have this documents:
```auto
{"match_all": {}}
"hits": [{"_id": "0", "_index": "test_index", "_score": 1.0, "_source": {"fields": {"target": "VALUE"}, "some_key": "value"}, "_type": "_doc"},
{"_id": "1", "_index": "test_index", "_score": 1.0, "_source": {"fields": {"target": "TEST VALUE"}, "some_key": "value"}, "_type": "_doc"},
{"_id": "2", "_index": "test_index", "_score": 1.0, "_source": {"fields": {"target": "VALUE"}, "some_key": "value"}, "_type": "_doc"},
{"_id": "3", "_index": "test_index", "_score": 1.0, "_source": {"fields": {"target": "VALUE TEST"}, "some_key": "value"}, "_type": "_doc"},
{"_id": "4", "_index": "test_index", "_score": 1.0, "_source": {"fields": {"target": "VALUE SOME"}, "some_key": "value"}, "_type": "_doc"}],
"max_score": 1.0,
"total": {"relation": "eq", "value": 5}
```
I need to filter documents where `fields.target` matches only "VALUE" (2 of 5 documents).
How can I do that?
The preferable method is `query_string`, but if it is not possible, other types ok too.
Mapping:
```auto
{
"test_index": {
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"fields": {"properties": {"target": {"fields": {"keyword": {"ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword"}}, "type": "text"}}},
"some_key": {"fields": {"keyword": {"ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword"}}, "type": "text"}}
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457/2 "2020-04-23T13:35:53Z")
Try to search on `fields.target.keyword` instead.
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### Author:  [@smiler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smiler)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457/3 "2020-04-23T14:07:15Z")
Wow, thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-word-search/229457/4 "2020-05-21T14:07:22Z")
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