# Spell Correction w/ Fuzzy - How to get "we corrected your search for 'catts' to "cats" back from results to show user?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spell-correction-w-fuzzy-how-to-get-we-corrected-your-search-for-catts-to-cats-back-from-results-to-show-user/43817>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spell-correction-w-fuzzy-how-to-get-we-corrected-your-search-for-catts-to-cats-back-from-results-to-show-user/43817 "2016-03-08T18:14:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spell-correction-w-fuzzy-how-to-get-we-corrected-your-search-for-catts-to-cats-back-from-results-to-show-user/43817/1 "2016-03-08T18:14:59Z")

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Hi there,

I'm building an app and using fuzzy searching to auto-correct misspelled searched.  
How do I get this info from ES:

A. spell corrected [true|false]  
B. If A is true, both the original search term and the spell corrected one.

Thanks so much!

Kind Regards,  
Todd DeSantis  
Portland, ME

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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 5, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spell-correction-w-fuzzy-how-to-get-we-corrected-your-search-for-catts-to-cats-back-from-results-to-show-user/43817/2 "2017-07-05T23:10:15Z")

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