# How to assign each word's weight in a query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 7, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430 "2021-05-07T14:04:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@xiaoma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xiaoma)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430/1 "2021-05-07T14:04:20Z")
hello guys, I want to assign different weight for each words in a query (i have an important word set)
For example:
Query : "the elastic guide book" ,
the word "elastic " is supposed to an important word, which weight is 0.6, "guide" weight is 0.2 ...
i think this is a term weight problem.
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### Author:  [@xiaoma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xiaoma)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430/2 "2021-05-08T09:37:21Z")
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430/3 "2021-05-08T11:53:22Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-assign-each-words-weight-in-a-query/272430/4 "2021-06-05T11:54:13Z")
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