# Fuzzy Search Outside of Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-outside-of-query/51625>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-outside-of-query/51625 "2016-06-01T22:14:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![John\_B\_Seals](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_b_seals/32/9837_2.png) [@John\_B\_Seals](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_B_Seals)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-outside-of-query/51625/1 "2016-06-01T22:14:09Z")

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I understand that I can search with a query using Fuzziness but is there a way I can apply a level of fuzziness by default? Perhaps on a certain field(s) or even for all searches. Is this possible? Or do I have to go and modify Lucene or something?

Thanks!

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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, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-outside-of-query/51625/2 "2017-07-05T22:47:08Z")

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