# How to give higher score to exact searches than phonetic ones in Elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197 "2020-02-06T14:38:11Z")
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### Author:  [@abhijith\_chandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhijith_chandran)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197/1 "2020-02-06T14:38:11Z")
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:
```auto
{
"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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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197/2 "2020-02-06T14:47:42Z")
You don't have to settle on one indexing strategy or querying strategy:
- Index your field multiple ways in the mapping using [multi-fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-fields.html)
- 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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### Author:  [@abhijith\_chandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhijith_chandran)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197/3 "2020-02-06T14:56:47Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-give-higher-score-to-exact-searches-than-phonetic-ones-in-elasticsearch/218197/4 "2020-03-05T14:56:51Z")
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