# Search on ressembling words

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-on-ressembling-words/18321>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 25, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-on-ressembling-words/18321 "2014-06-25T08:42:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![darklyjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@darklyjohn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/darklyjohn)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-on-ressembling-words/18321/1 "2014-06-25T08:42:47Z")

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Hi all,

i'm a novice in the world of elasticsearch, i try this tool and found it very powerful !  
I'm trying the tool for the moment and i have a question about something i don't know how to implement it:

I would like searching on a word for e.g "Belgium". In my collection i have the word "Belgian" and i would like elasticsearch return "belgian" as reuslt because this word is almost the same (just "ium" is different).

Is it possible to do something like this in ES ?

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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, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-on-ressembling-words/18321/2 "2017-07-06T01:19:56Z")

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