# Preventing ngram on query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/preventing-ngram-on-query/16386>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/preventing-ngram-on-query/16386 "2014-03-14T23:04:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jcarleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@jcarleton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jcarleton)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/preventing-ngram-on-query/16386/1 "2014-03-14T23:04:06Z")

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How would you disable the ngramming of the query term:  
"match": {"username.ngram": "linus"

the indexer:  
"tokenizer": {"customNgram": {"type": "nGram", "min\_gram": 3, "max\_gram": 5}

I don't want hits for lin, inu, nus as in Xinus but I do want hits for tlinustorvalds

In other words - I don't what the query term "linus" to be broken down to [4-2]-grams

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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 6, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/preventing-ngram-on-query/16386/2 "2017-07-06T01:43:04Z")

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