# Prefix query with multiple "prefixes"/words
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefix-query-with-multiple-prefixes-words/17724
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 26, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefix-query-with-multiple-prefixes-words/17724 "2014-05-26T11:21:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Felix\_Schwarz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felix_Schwarz)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefix-query-with-multiple-prefixes-words/17724/1 "2014-05-26T11:21:27Z")
I'm looking for a query so that "foo baz" matches the following documents:
"foobar baz"
"foo baz"
"baz foo"
"foo bazilion"
Basically I'd like to break down the search string into words and look for a
(prefix)match of all words in the index.
currently I'm using this query
'multi\_match': {
'query': query\_string,
'fields': ['\_all'],
'type': 'phrase\_prefix',
}
but it only works for a single word. For example a query for "baz foo" (word
order inverted) does not return a result.
(I'm also open for pretty expensive queries if that's necessary - there are
only few searches so functionality wins over raw performance.)
Any suggestions which query type I should use?
Thank you,
Felix
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefix-query-with-multiple-prefixes-words/17724/2 "2014-05-26T13:53:15Z")
See [Prefix OR query with Elasticsearch · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/jprante/bdf9a9755a64bc23afbe)
Jörg
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Felix Schwarz \ wrote:
> I'm looking for a query so that "foo baz" matches the following documents:
> "foobar baz"
> "foo baz"
> "baz foo"
> "foo bazilion"
>
> Basically I'd like to break down the search string into words and look for
> a
> (prefix)match of all words in the index.
>
> currently I'm using this query
> 'multi\_match': {
> 'query': query\_string,
> 'fields': ['\_all'],
> 'type': 'phrase\_prefix',
> }
> but it only works for a single word. For example a query for "baz foo"
> (word
> order inverted) does not return a result.
> (I'm also open for pretty expensive queries if that's necessary - there are
> only few searches so functionality wins over raw performance.)
>
> Any suggestions which query type I should use?
>
> Thank you,
> Felix
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefix-query-with-multiple-prefixes-words/17724/3 "2017-07-06T01:26:55Z")