# Fuzzy search on \_all field with nested fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-on--all-field-with-nested-fields/56277>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-on--all-field-with-nested-fields/56277 "2016-07-25T09:06:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LiorY89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@LiorY89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LiorY89)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-on--all-field-with-nested-fields/56277/1 "2016-07-25T09:06:17Z")

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I have an index with records contains many string fields, and one nested field with string and double  
i tried to do a multi-match query with fuzzines on the \_all field, but it didn't work.  
Is there any other solution?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-on--all-field-with-nested-fields/56277/2 "2016-07-25T10:43:42Z")

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Did you try it on the specific field you want to query?

It doesn't really make sense to run it on `_all`, because it's almost like an array in how it is structured (even though it actually isn't).

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-on--all-field-with-nested-fields/56277/3 "2017-07-05T22:33:11Z")

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