# Fuzzy matching using Jaro Winkler?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-matching-using-jaro-winkler/208377>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-matching-using-jaro-winkler/208377 "2019-11-18T19:34:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![AmoghM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amoghm/32/48679_2.png) [@AmoghM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AmoghM)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-matching-using-jaro-winkler/208377/1 "2019-11-18T19:34:01Z")

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Can we choose Jaro-Winkler as our algorithm for fuzzy matching instead of Levenshtein distance? If not, then is there a way we can implement our own custom way of doing 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:** [December 16, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-matching-using-jaro-winkler/208377/2 "2019-12-16T19:34:03Z")

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