# Multi word partial search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 7, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829 "2017-05-07T02:44:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gibsmds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@gibsmds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gibsmds)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829/1 "2017-05-07T02:44:49Z")

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hi,  
i am very new to the Elastic search.  
Like to know how to search partial multi word search.  
ex :  
My document  
{  
"title":"harry porter"  
}

i need this document with search with following string  
1.)har por  
sql query (select \* from books where title like '%har%' or title like '%por%')

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829/2 "2017-05-07T07:50:26Z")

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You need to change the analyzer for your field and use a ngram based one.

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**Author:** ![gibsmds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@gibsmds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gibsmds)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829/3 "2017-05-15T06:26:43Z")

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thank,Its working fine

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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:** [June 12, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-word-partial-search/84829/4 "2017-06-12T06:27:39Z")

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