# Multi\_match with Wildcard?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-with-wildcard/144883>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-with-wildcard/144883 "2018-08-17T10:19:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Duncan\_Mein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/duncan_mein/32/34580_2.png) [@Duncan\_Mein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Duncan_Mein)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-with-wildcard/144883/1 "2018-08-17T10:19:12Z")

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This query is working well for me but I wondered if it's possible to use wildcards on the search term?

{  
"query": {  
"multi\_match" : {  
"query": "Jones Mein",  
"fields": ["surname", "person\_number"],  
"fuzziness": "AUTO"  
}  
}  
}

i.e.

{  
"query": {  
"multi\_match" : {  
"query": "Jones Mei\*",  
"fields": ["surname", "person\_number"],  
"fuzziness": "AUTO"  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![tamara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tamara/32/47095_2.png) [@tamara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tamara)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-with-wildcard/144883/2 "2018-08-17T13:14:00Z")

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You can only use wildcards in the following APIs:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-wildcard-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-wildcard-query.html)

OR

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/query-dsl-regexp-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/query-dsl-regexp-query.html)

I suggest you to wrap this in a bool query and use the wildcard Api only in one field.

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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:** [September 14, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-match-with-wildcard/144883/3 "2018-09-14T13:19:03Z")

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