# Phrase match with filters
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-match-with-filters/8817
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 22, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-match-with-filters/8817 "2012-08-22T17:14:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Josh\_P](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_P)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-match-with-filters/8817/1 "2012-08-22T17:14:53Z")
I have a schema whereby each document contains a single array field named
"keywords\_search". I was wondering whether it's possible to perform a
phrase match using filters alone. I'm using the default tokenizer/analyzer
and don't need ranking. Here's what I have so far:
{
"query": {
"constant\_score": {
"filter": {
"term": {
"keywords\_search": "ford mustang"
}
}
}
}
}
I want the following document to match:
{
"keywords\_search": ["I want a Ford Mustang now", "drivers ed classes"]
}
Unfortunately it doesn't match under my query. However, if I change my
query to just "ford", the document does match.
Any ideas on how I can achieve phrase match using filters?
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-match-with-filters/8817/2 "2012-08-22T22:31:37Z")
A term query/filter will only match on an exact match since the term
is not analyzed (entire string is one token). Your keywords\_search
field is analyzed (broken down into separate tokens) and therefore it
would not match (it can in some cases).
For filters, your only option is the Query Filter:
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Not sure why Text is not available as a filter.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Josh P [josh.poritz@gmail.com](mailto:josh.poritz@gmail.com) wrote:
> I have a schema whereby each document contains a single array field named
> "keywords\_search". I was wondering whether it's possible to perform a phrase
> match using filters alone. I'm using the default tokenizer/analyzer and
> don't need ranking. Here's what I have so far:
>
> {
> "query": {
> "constant\_score": {
> "filter": {
> "term": {
> "keywords\_search": "ford mustang"
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> I want the following document to match:
>
> {
> "keywords\_search": ["I want a Ford Mustang now", "drivers ed classes"]
> }
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't match under my query. However, if I change my
> query to just "ford", the document does match.
>
> Any ideas on how I can achieve phrase match using filters?
>
> --
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-match-with-filters/8817/3 "2017-07-06T03:15:25Z")