# Phrase\_prefix search issue with single character
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860 "2019-11-21T10:47:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dipanshu\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dipanshu_sharma)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/1 "2019-11-21T10:47:36Z")
I have a data like 'Dipanshu S', 'Mohit Sharma' and 'Mohit Shakya' in my database and when i do a ES search query like :-
> "multi\_match": {
> "query": "Mohit S",
> "type": "phrase\_prefix",
> "fields": ["name", "nickname"]
> }
It gives me correct result 'Mohit Sharma' and 'Mohit Shakya' as it returns results with exact matching of first term 'Mohit' and returning all words starting with 'S' but when i do same search with query
> "multi\_match": {
> "query": "Dipanshu S",
> "type": "phrase\_prefix",
> "fields": ["name", "nickname"]
> }
:"Dipanshu S" then it doesn't return any results because the word 'S' is not a word starting with character 'S' but its a complete word in itself in the data 'Dipanshu S'.
So how to manipulate query to get results with single character words?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/2 "2019-11-21T12:26:40Z")
can you please share a fully reproducible example including index creation, document indexing and mapping...
This example works for me, so something in your setup seems to be different
```auto
DELETE test
PUT test/_doc/1?refresh
{
"name" : "Dipanshu S"
}
GET test/_search
{
"query": {
"multi_match": {
"query": "Dipanshu S",
"type": "phrase_prefix",
"fields": [
"name"
]
}
}
}
```
Thanks!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@dipanshu\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dipanshu_sharma)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/3 "2019-11-21T13:11:03Z")
I'm sharing my mappings and settings(analyzers) configs.
Mapping:
> ```
> "name": {
> "type": "keyword",
> "fields": {
> "caseInsensitive": {
> "type": "text",
> "analyzer": "lowercase_keyword_analyzer"
> },
> "fulltext": {
> "type": "text",
> "analyzer": "english_standard_edgengram_analyzer",
> "search_analyzer": "english_standard_analyzer"
> }
> },
> "normalizer": "lowercase_normalizer"
> }
>
> ```
Analyzer:
> ```
> "analyzer": {
> "numeric_edgengram_analyzer": {
> "filter": [
> "edgengram_filter"
> ],
> "char_filter": [
> "numeric_filter"
> ],
> "type": "custom",
> "tokenizer": "keyword"
> },
> "lowercase_keyword_analyzer": {
> "filter": [
> "lowercase"
> ],
> "type": "custom",
> "tokenizer": "keyword"
> },
> "numeric_keyword_analyzer": {
> "type": "custom",
> "char_filter": [
> "numeric_filter"
> ],
> "tokenizer": "keyword"
> },
> "english_standard_analyzer": {
> "filter": [
> "lowercase"
> ],
> "type": "keyword"
> },
> "english_standard_edgengram_analyzer": {
> "filter": [
> "lowercase",
> "edgengram_filter"
> ],
> "type": "custom",
> "tokenizer": "english_standard_tokenizer"
> }
> }
>
> ```
And you can test with some different data like "Dipanshu S Gupta", "Dipanshu Sharma".
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/4 "2019-11-21T14:09:15Z")
can you please share the full commands of index creation + mapping in the console tools or in a curl compatible fashion? The above snippets means, everyone reading your ask for support needs to convert this in working snippets, which again is quite tedious.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@dipanshu\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dipanshu_sharma)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/5 "2019-11-21T16:41:45Z")
hey, it's little bit difficult for me to share that code but just wants to know that does the query "Dipanshu S" gives the result "Dipanshu S Sharma" ? I mean does the prefix "S" includes the result "Dipanshu S Sharma" as "S" is not a word starting from "S" but it's a complete word in itself. And did you got my question?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-prefix-search-issue-with-single-character/208860/6 "2019-12-19T16:41:52Z")
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