# Split phrase to search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-phrase-to-search/130797
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 7, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-phrase-to-search/130797 "2018-05-07T08:33:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Michal\_Pietrasz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michal_Pietrasz)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-phrase-to-search/130797/1 "2018-05-07T08:33:02Z")
Hello,
I need to do search mechanism when customer type "My custom phrase" in search then I need to search by:
"My custom phrase"
"My"
"custom"
"phrase"
and in same hierarchic result should be shown.
Should I use custom engine and manually split this sentence and create multiple where or there is a build in mechanism for that ?
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### Author:  [@abdon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdon)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-phrase-to-search/130797/2 "2018-05-07T15:26:13Z")
You could use a `bool` query that combines a query for the entire phrase (using the `match_phrase` query), combined with a query for the individual terms (using a `match` query). The idea is that documents that contain the exact phrase will get a higher score, because they will match on both clauses.
The query cwould look something like this:
```auto
GET _search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"match": {
"content": "My custom phrase"
}
},
"should": {
"match_phrase": {
"content": "My custom phrase"
}
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-phrase-to-search/130797/3 "2018-06-04T15:26:32Z")
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