# Query that return similar words

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825 "2021-05-12T15:31:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![abdess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@abdess](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdess)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825/1 "2021-05-12T15:31:40Z")

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I have a document that contains "chnik" word in a field and i want to return it in the result if i search for "china" word.

Query used:

```auto
    {
      "query": {
        "query_string": {
    			"query": "*china* *chin* OR china~ chin~ chi*~"
    		}
      }
    }

```

but this query doesn't return the document that contains "chnik" word.  
Any help?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825/2 "2021-05-12T16:51:40Z")

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This works:

```auto
DELETE test 
POST test/_doc
{
  "name": "chnik"
}
GET test/_search
{
  "query": {
    "multi_match": {
      "query": "china",
      "fields": ["name"],
      "fuzziness": 2
    }
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![abdess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@abdess](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdess)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825/3 "2021-05-12T18:25:36Z")

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Thanks it works

but what means "fuzziness": 2 in the query?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825/4 "2021-05-13T05:16:43Z")

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Have a look at [Fuzzy query | Elasticsearch Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-fuzzy-query.html)

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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:** [June 10, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-that-return-similar-words/272825/5 "2021-06-10T05:17:31Z")

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