# Multi\_match and cutoff\_frequency

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-and-cutoff-frequency/16717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 31, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-and-cutoff-frequency/16717 "2014-03-31T14:29:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Alex\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_K)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-and-cutoff-frequency/16717/1 "2014-03-31T14:29:19Z")

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Hello there,

I am a total ES-noob, so please forgive me if my question is weird or  
something 😉

Currently I have a task to implement the cutoff\_frequency for our  
elasticsearch-queries.  
The current query looks like this:

{  
"query":{  
"bool":{  
"should":[  
{"multi\_match":{  
"query":"the",  
"cutoff\_frequency":0.001,  
"fields":["TITLE","SHORTDESC"],  
"type":"phrase\_prefix"}  
}  
]  
}  
},  
"filter":{  
"term":{  
"ACTIVE":1  
}  
},  
"sort":{  
"TITLE":{  
"order":"asc"  
}  
},  
"size":7}

This works perfectly fine, like before, BUT it seems that the  
cutoff\_frequency there doesn't matter.  
Is it the wrong place to put there?  
Or doesn't it work with multi\_match?

I have to admit that I haven't fully understand the things that  
cutoff\_frequency does.  
But I have lots of entries in the index for this query which has "The" in  
the title.  
Wouldn't cutoff\_frequency:0.001 mean that the word "the" is ignored if it  
is in 1/1000 of all the words in the titles?  
(and yes, in case I did understand it the other way around, I also tried  
1.0, which would mean 1000/1000 = every word, yes? didn't make a diference  
for my query)

Sorry for my bad english, I am german.  
I hope I don't confuse anyone too much...

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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, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-and-cutoff-frequency/16717/2 "2017-07-06T01:39:20Z")

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