# Search for word without spaces if query contains spaces
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 24, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342 "2016-03-24T12:14:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Lukas\_Zaiser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Zaiser)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342/1 "2016-03-24T12:14:51Z")
Hello maybe someone can help me,
I'm using Multimatch Query with Fuzzy search to build a search and it's working pretty good.
My query:
`{"from":0,"size":30,"query": {"bool":{"should":[{"multi_match":{ "query":"Farbe", "fields": ["name1","name2","city1","postalCode"]}}, {"match":{"name1":{"_name":"name1","query":"Farbe","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":3,"max_expansions":50}}}, {"match":{"name2":{"_name":"name2","query":"Farbe","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":3,"max_expansions":50}}}, {"match":{"city1":{"_name":"city1","query":"Farbe","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":3,"max_expansions":50}}}, {"match":{"postalCode":{"_name":"postalCode","query":"Farbe","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":3,"max_expansions":50}}}]}}}`
The only thing that doesn't work is if I search for e.g.
Mexicocity
when the correct entry would be: Mexico City.
I think I need an analyzer for my search term.
Is this kind of search correction possible with ES?
Would be great if I don't have to modify my data definition in the database.
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### Author:  [@hkhalidz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hkhalidz)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342/2 "2016-05-11T21:55:09Z")
You can use the **wildcard** parameter for this. Here's an example:
`{ "wildcard": { "fieldname": "*need*" } }`
This will match every word that has the word need in it.
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### Author:  [@Mallikarjuna\_J\_S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mallikarjuna_J_S)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342/3 "2017-04-02T19:19:34Z")
Hi Lukas,
Here is the link to one of the post that solves your problem hope this helps.
> **[Elasticsearch \[How to search for a word without spaces, if word itself is...](https://arjunjs.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/elasticsearch-how-to-search-for-a-word-without-spaces-if-word-itself-is-combination-of-two-different-words/?preview_id=122&preview_nonce=7b0c3efe95)**
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> I was using Elasticsearch for search and there was this specific problem I encountered in one of the applications I was working on. So, the problem was this there are numerous words in English tha…
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-word-without-spaces-if-query-contains-spaces/45342/4 "2017-07-05T22:01:33Z")