# Phrase Suggester working flow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702 "2016-06-14T08:18:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![taruntyagi94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@taruntyagi94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taruntyagi94)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/1 "2016-06-14T08:18:47Z")

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Hello ,

please tell me the working of phrase suggester because if i search centr it gives center,centre,central suggestions but if i search centre it does not give any suggestion why?

please any one explain for me .

Thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/2 "2016-06-16T06:29:58Z")

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Did you have a read of [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/search-suggesters-phrase.html#search-suggesters-phrase](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/search-suggesters-phrase.html#search-suggesters-phrase)?

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**Author:** ![taruntyagi94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@taruntyagi94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taruntyagi94)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/3 "2016-06-16T06:35:40Z")

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thanks for reply,  
yes i have read this .  
but i did not find any reasion why does it give suggestion on centr and why does it not give suggestion on centre

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/4 "2016-06-16T06:48:21Z")

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That'd depend on the various settings you have passed into the query, what does your query look like?

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**Author:** ![taruntyagi94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@taruntyagi94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taruntyagi94)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/5 "2016-06-16T09:45:01Z")

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this is my query

"suggest":{  
"text":"centre",  
"simple\_phrase":{  
"phrase":{  
"analyzer":"standard",  
"field":"\_all",  
"size":5,  
"real\_word\_error\_likelihood":0.2,  
"max\_errors":4,  
"confidence":2,  
"highlight":{  
"pre\_tag":"",  
"post\_tag":""  
},  
"direct\_generator":[  
{  
"field":"\_all",  
"suggest\_mode":"always",  
"min\_doc\_freq":3,  
"min\_word\_len":1  
}  
],  
"collate":{  
"query":{  
"match\_phrase":{  
"\_all":"{{suggestion}}"  
}  
},  
"prune":true  
}  
}  
}  
}

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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, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phrase-suggester-working-flow/52702/6 "2017-07-05T22:43:20Z")

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