# Slop distance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slop-distance/10764>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 17, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slop-distance/10764 "2013-02-17T11:28:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ophir\_Michaeli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ophir\_Michaeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ophir_Michaeli)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slop-distance/10764/1 "2013-02-17T11:28:30Z")

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Slop distance

Hi,

I'm testing for my company a possible move from lucene to elasticsearch.

In lucene I have SetSlop, which when I set to 0 will bring results only for  
the exact phrase.

In elastic search I use "phrase\_slop": 0.0, but get results, when searching  
for a part of a phrase.

I indexed "lazy red fox", searched for "lazy fox" and got results.

I searched using REST.

METHOD:

POST

URL:

[http://localhost:9200/cinemagramcin/documents/\_search](http://localhost:9200/cinemagramcin/documents/_search)

BODY:

{

"size": 500,

"query": {

```
"query_string": {

  "query": "fox lazy",

  "fields": [

    "board^5",

    "user^1",

    "description^10"

  ],

  "analyzer": "snowball",

  "phrase_slop": 0.0

}

```

},

"fields": [

```
"iDPin",

"iDPicture"

```

]

}

Thanks,

Ophir

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**Author:** ![simonw\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simonw_2/32/1130_2.png) [@simonw\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonw_2)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slop-distance/10764/2 "2013-02-17T18:52:14Z")

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Hey Ophir,

you used the "query\_string" which is a query that is passed thorugh the  
lucene query parser. if you specify "query" : "fox lazy" this gets  
translated into a boolean query.  
if you want to execute a phrase query you should rather use "query" :  
""fox lazy"". Yet I'd recommend you using the match query instead which  
is not passed through a query parser but still analyzed.

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so this would look like: (slop is 0 by default)

{  
"match" : {  
"message" : {  
"query" : "fox lazy",  
"type" : "phrase"  
}  
}  
}

for multiple fields support look at

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hope this helps,

simon

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:28:30 PM UTC+1, Ophir Michaeli wrote:

> Slop distance
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing for my company a possible move from lucene to elasticsearch.
> 
> In lucene I have SetSlop, which when I set to 0 will bring results only  
> for the exact phrase.
> 
> In Elasticsearch I use "phrase\_slop": 0.0, but get results, when  
> searching for a part of a phrase.
> 
> I indexed "lazy red fox", searched for "lazy fox" and got results.
> 
> I searched using REST.
> 
> METHOD:
> 
> POST
> 
> URL:
> 
> [http://localhost:9200/cinemagramcin/documents/\_search](http://localhost:9200/cinemagramcin/documents/_search)
> 
> BODY:
> 
> {
> 
> "size": 500,
> 
> "query": {
> 
> ```
> "query_string": {
> 
> "query": "fox lazy",
> 
> "fields": [
> 
> "board^5",
> 
> "user^1",
> 
> "description^10"
> 
> ],
> 
> "analyzer": "snowball",
> 
> "phrase_slop": 0.0
> 
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> },
> 
> "fields": [
> 
> ```
> "iDPin",
> 
> "iDPicture"
> 
> ```
> 
> ]
> 
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ophir

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/slop-distance/10764/3 "2017-07-06T02:51:07Z")

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