# Multi\_match to return exact results for single word criteria **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 29, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-to-return-exact-results-for-single-word-criteria/287995 "2021-10-29T11:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![itokai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@itokai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/itokai)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-to-return-exact-results-for-single-word-criteria/287995/1 "2021-10-29T11:59:36Z")
Hello, have simple use-case: find certain word in any field of a document (through whole index). However, getting back (many!) false positive documents, also? Documents don't contain the word submitted in **multi\_match** criteria, but somehow they appear in hits. Analyzer/mapping is default, mostly "text" fields. Looked around for properties and suggestions, but no precise answer (yet) [official](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html) [example1](https://spoon-elastic.com/all-elastic-search-post/multi-match-query-elasticsearch-scoring-part-3/) [example2](https://coralogix.com/blog/42-elasticsearch-query-examples-hands-on-tutorial/) [example3](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/elasticsearch/full-text/) How to fetch documents strictly containing search criteria in any of document's field? Regards ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-to-return-exact-results-for-single-word-criteria/287995/2 "2021-11-26T11:59:58Z")
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