# Query-as-you-type problems with scoring and misspellings **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 4, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-as-you-type-problems-with-scoring-and-misspellings/1923 "2015-06-04T11:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Lundstrom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@Peter\_Lundstrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_Lundstrom)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-as-you-type-problems-with-scoring-and-misspellings/1923/1 "2015-06-04T11:31:04Z")
Hi, I have an index with a large number of people in it. I want to implement search-as-you-type functionality but I don't get hits in the order I expect and sometimes I don't get any hits at all. The names are stored in a single "name"-field. In my index there are more than 20 people named "Anders Johansson" (with that exact spelling), and there are also a lot of people with names similar to "Anders Johansson", for instance: "Anderz Johansson", "Anders Johanesson", "Anderas Johansson" etc. What I want is a query that returns all the "Anders Johansson"s as the top hits when I search for any of the following: "Anders Johansson" (A match query towards the name-field with fuzziness set to 0.1 returns all the similar examples above BEFORE (higher score than) the first real "Anders Johansson"-hit) "Anders Johans" (A match\_phrase\_prefix returns what I want here) "Anderk Johans" (Anders is misspelled here. This returns zero answers with a match\_phrase\_prefix query no matter what I set fuzziness to.) Is there a query that works like match\_phrase\_prefix (last word not yet completed) that also handles spelling mistakes in one of the first words? I have tried match, match\_phrase\_prefix and fuzzy-queries, with different combinations of fuzziness, slop and max\_expansions, but I can't find one the handles all of the situations above. /Peter ---
**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, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-as-you-type-problems-with-scoring-and-misspellings/1923/2 "2017-07-06T00:09:40Z")