# Fuzziness in prefix query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 28, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377 "2018-01-28T17:13:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Chaurasia)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/1 "2018-01-28T17:13:00Z")

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I want the functionalities of both fuzzy query and prefix query together , is there a way to achieve so.

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**Author:** ![s1monw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/s1monw/32/3637_2.png) [@s1monw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/s1monw)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/2 "2018-02-02T10:22:01Z")

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there is no query that allows you to do that today. There are several techniques to achieve similar things but nothing out of the box.

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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Chaurasia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/3 "2018-02-02T10:23:17Z")

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Please provide the guidelines to achieve so,

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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:** [February 2, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/4 "2018-02-02T14:11:13Z")

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I wrote a response for a similar use case (not exactly the same but that will give you an idea):

> [@Wildcard / regexp in a phrase which has space](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-regexp-in-a-phrase-which-has-space/117962/17):
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> Sure. This is what you want: DELETE test PUT test { "settings": { "analysis": { "analyzer": { "my\_analyzer": { "tokenizer": "standard", "filter": ["lowercase", "ngram"] } }, "filter": { "ngram": { "type": "edge\_ngram", "min\_gram": 1, "max\_gram": 20, "token\_chars": ["letter", "digit"] } } } }, "mappings": { …

HTH

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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@Vishal\_Chaurasia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Chaurasia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/5 "2018-02-02T14:33:33Z")

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will this work for all different language analyzers, like hindi chinese etc. ?

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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:** [February 2, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/6 "2018-02-02T14:53:06Z")

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I don't know.

You need to try it.

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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:** [March 2, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzziness-in-prefix-query/117377/7 "2018-03-02T14:53:08Z")

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