# Phrase suggester not working term suggester is working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-not-working-term-suggester-is-working/129102
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-not-working-term-suggester-is-working/129102 "2018-04-23T12:52:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-not-working-term-suggester-is-working/129102/1 "2018-04-23T12:52:27Z")
Is there a setting which governs if one is disabled?
I have an ES deployment where phrase suggester does not suggest anything while term suggester does.
This does not give any suggestions-
GET index\_name/type/\_search
{
"size":0,
"suggest": {
"text": { "projec",
"simple\_phrase": {
**"phrase"** : {
"field": "name"
}
}
}
}
}
Changing **"phrase"** to **"term"** starts working and gives the suggestion
GET index\_name/type/\_search
{
"size":0,
"suggest": {
"text": { "projec",
"simple\_phrase": {
**"term"** : {
"field": "name"
}
}
}
}
}
I want to use phrase suggester so I can filter the suggestions on the basis of collate query I run. So I cannot work with term suggester.
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### Author:  [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-not-working-term-suggester-is-working/129102/2 "2018-04-25T15:06:27Z")
Thanks to @ishim for pointing me to the missing "confidence" param because of which suggestions were not coming.
The query should have correct confidence value to return the suggestions- (read more [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters.html))
GET index\_name/type/\_search
{
"size":0,
"suggest": {
"text": { "projec",
"simple\_phrase": {
"phrase": {
"field": "name",
"confidence":0
}
}
}
}
}
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-not-working-term-suggester-is-working/129102/3 "2018-05-23T15:06:31Z")
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