# Jaro Winkler for fuzzy seach?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jaro-winkler-for-fuzzy-seach/221107>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jaro-winkler-for-fuzzy-seach/221107 "2020-02-26T20:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![deslauriersp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deslauriersp/32/47685_2.png) [@deslauriersp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/deslauriersp)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jaro-winkler-for-fuzzy-seach/221107/1 "2020-02-26T20:18:51Z")

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This has been asked mulitple times, but has not been answered

> [@Fuzzy matching using Jaro Winkler?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-matching-using-jaro-winkler/208377):
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> Can we choose Jaro-Winkler as our algorithm for fuzzy matching instead of Levenshtein distance? If not, then is there a way we can implement our own custom way of doing it?

> [@Jaro-Winkler Query](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jaro-winkler-query/19282):
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> Hi, Is it possible to use jaro-winker rather than levenshtein distance for fuzzy queries? Any ideas how one could go about extending ES to enable this. I have looked at using function score like below however this does not work for me seeing as I cannot combine this with another query that uses provided analyzers. For example I would like to combine a search using phonetic encoding & jaro-winker distance. query: { "function\_score" : { "query" : { "match\_all" : { } }, "script\_score" …

It is possible to configure StringDistance for suggester with JaroWrinkler...

> **[Suggesters | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters.html)**

But how about fuzzy search?

Thanks!

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jaro-winkler-for-fuzzy-seach/221107/2 "2020-03-25T20:18:55Z")

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