# Fuzzy contains on wild card fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-contains-on-wild-card-fields/201633>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 30, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-contains-on-wild-card-fields/201633 "2019-09-30T12:18:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiptobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@tiptobi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiptobi)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-contains-on-wild-card-fields/201633/1 "2019-09-30T12:18:36Z")

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Hi guys,  
I'm struggling to do a "fuzzy contains" search on fields with wildcards.  
The index looks like:  
"property": {  
"title": {  
"\_en": "sample movie",  
"\_fr": "exemple"  
}

My first try was sth. like  
"fuzzy": {  
"property.title.\_\*.tokenized": {  
"fuzziness": "AUTO",  
"prefix\_length": 1,  
"value": "movei"  
}  
}

But fuzzy query doesn't support wildcard fields. So I tried to use a query string:  
"query\_string": {  
"fields": ["property.title.\_\*.tokenized"],  
"fuzziness": "AUTO",  
"fuzzy\_prefix\_length": 1,  
"query": "\*movei~\*"  
}

But this returns just everything that has a value on property.title.  
Additional information:

- "\*movie\*" as query parameter works as normal contains
- "sample movei~" as query parameter works as normal "fuzzy equals"

Any ideas how this could be combined which would result in a fuzzy contains? I'm still on ES 6.5.

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂

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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:** [October 28, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-contains-on-wild-card-fields/201633/2 "2019-10-28T12:18:40Z")

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