# Partial Matching with Synonym filters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-matching-with-synonym-filters/95832>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-matching-with-synonym-filters/95832 "2017-08-04T07:49:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_Jackson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steve_jackson/32/20789_2.png) [@Steve\_Jackson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Steve_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-matching-with-synonym-filters/95832/1 "2017-08-04T07:49:42Z")

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Hi.

I am trying to use a synonym filter for searching known variations of a name.

I have configured a type "people" with property "name" (string). This is configured to use a defined filter with the following synonym definition (I will expand these later)

aliss,aleese,aleeze,alisa =\> alice

Inserting content containing name "Alice", and searching for "\_search?q=name:"Aliss" etc works fine.

However, I would also like to expand upon this and allowing searching of partial synonym matches. Is this possible?

i.e q=name:"Alis\*" OR q=name:"Alee\*"

This does not work. I know this can be solved in the application logic of course, but it would be kinda cool if Elastic supported this, or if I could somehow chain some filters together to achieve it.

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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 1, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-matching-with-synonym-filters/95832/2 "2017-09-01T07:49:49Z")

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