# How do fuzzy Query work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-fuzzy-query-work/175433>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-fuzzy-query-work/175433 "2019-04-04T14:08:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![samyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@samyo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samyo)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-fuzzy-query-work/175433/1 "2019-04-04T14:08:55Z")

</div>

Hello Folks, can anybody correct me my following search query, what i am doing wroing , cause it did not work. i want to search in a field "word" for a specific word "wellcoming" using must query, but i want it to tolerate some missing Letter like if i write "welcming" , how to control the nummber of tolerated letters??  
, i used "fuzziness":2 in order to tolerate 2 letter in the word.  
GET test\_search  
{  
"query":{  
"bool":{  
"must":[  
"fuzzy":{  
{ "match": { "word": "wellcoming" ,"fuzziness": 2} }  
} ]  
}  
}  
}

thx.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-fuzzy-query-work/175433/2 "2019-05-02T14:09:04Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.