# Fuzzy search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search/283603>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search/283603 "2021-09-08T04:37:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search/283603/12 "2021-09-08T10:56:32Z")

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Fuzzy search will only help you match where there's max 2 characters different between search term and indexed term.

To match "San" with "San Diego" in the city field it sounds like you want to use a prefix query and to use a `keyword` field with a lower case normalizer.

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