# How to \_suggest on multiple fields?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to--suggest-on-multiple-fields/9669>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 12, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to--suggest-on-multiple-fields/9669 "2012-11-12T11:23:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![heretics99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@heretics99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heretics99)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to--suggest-on-multiple-fields/9669/1 "2012-11-12T11:23:25Z")

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To spell check / suggest one single field, we can do as follows:

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/index/type/\_suggest -d '{  
"field": "MY\_FIELD1.suggest",  
"term": "wrongly\_spelled\_word",  
"similarity": 0.3 }'

But how do we do the same thing on several fields like MY\_FIELD1, MY\_FIELD2 etc. I tried

"fields": ["MY\_FIELD1.suggest", "MY\_FIELD2.suggest"]

etc, but it was not working.

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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 6, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to--suggest-on-multiple-fields/9669/2 "2017-07-06T03:04:47Z")

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