# Odd Word Match, not a synonym

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-word-match-not-a-synonym/47438>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 14, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-word-match-not-a-synonym/47438 "2016-04-14T20:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshbartley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@joshbartley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshbartley)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-word-match-not-a-synonym/47438/1 "2016-04-14T20:42:49Z")

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We have a small edge case in our index when searching for the word "Moon". It matches to a company that we should call "Full Hardware". Would it be right to guess that since "Full Moon" appear together in some documents, that this would cause "Moon" to find records with "Full"? It scores low, but we were not expecting to put in a min\_score filter.

Below is the explain output when hitting the explain api (version 1.6)

{"\_index":"search-company\_1","\_type":"company","\_id":"123456","matched":true,"explanation":{"value":4.793683,"description":"weight(name:moo in 46422) [PerFieldSimilarity], result of:","details":[{"value":4.793683,"description":"fieldWeight in 46422, product of:","details":[{"value":1.4142135,"description":"tf(freq=2.0), with freq of:","details":[{"value":2.0,"description":"termFreq=2.0"}]},{"value":7.7477617,"description":"idf(docFreq=2956, maxDocs=2519805)"},{"value":0.4375,"description":"fieldNorm(doc=46422)"}]}]}}

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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 5, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-word-match-not-a-synonym/47438/2 "2017-07-05T22:59:05Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:59pm UTC