How to give higher score to exact searches than phonetic ones in Elasticsearch?

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I am currenty using Elasticsearch's phonetic analyzer. I want the query to give higher score to exact matches then phonetic ones. Here is the query I am using:

{
    "query": {
        "multi_match" : {
            "query" : "Abhijeet",
            "fields" : ["content", "title"]




        }
    },         
     "size": 10,
     "_source": [ "title", "bench", "court", "id_" ],
     "highlight": {
        "fields" : {
            "title" : {},
            "content":{}
        }
    }

}

When I search for Abhijeet , the top queries are Abhijit and only later does Abhijeet come. I want the exact matches to appear first, all the time and then the phonetic ones. Can this be done?

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You don't have to settle on one indexing strategy or querying strategy:

  • Index your field multiple ways in the mapping using multi-fields
  • Query your data using a bool query containing an array of should clauses - some targeting the phonetic field, others the field used for exact-matching. The bool query will take care of scoring docs that match both clauses highest.
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H @Mark_Harwood !
So for example I have the content field that contans the phonetic analyzer. Now when I search in the field I want the exact matches to come first, then the phonetic matches. I am just beginning out and if it isn't much trouble to you, a code example showing this will be really helpful.

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