# 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")\
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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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