# Query time concatenation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-time-concatenation/188590>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-time-concatenation/188590 "2019-07-03T00:02:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![chung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chung/32/49315_2.png) [@chung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chung)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-time-concatenation/188590/1 "2019-07-03T00:02:53Z")

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Given a doc `bowing is great` and a query `bow ing`

How can I make `bow ing` match with the indexed doc?

This is what I am using at this moment and of course it is not working as expected.

```auto
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "should": [
        {
          "multi_match": {
            "tie_breaker": 0.3,
            "query": "bow ing",
            "minimum_should_match": "2<75%",
            "fields": [
              "somefield",
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "min_score": 1
  }
}

```

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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:** [July 3, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-time-concatenation/188590/2 "2019-07-03T06:30:06Z")

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You could maybe try to use a ngram based analyzer with a min and max size of 3 (for your example), but I'm not sure it will exactly fit with your full use case.

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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 31, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-time-concatenation/188590/3 "2019-07-31T06:30:17Z")

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Closed on July 31, 2019, 6:30am UTC

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