# "Strange" behaviour multimatch with fuzziness
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-multimatch-with-fuzziness/98867
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-multimatch-with-fuzziness/98867 "2017-08-30T14:28:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@barry1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/barry1)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-multimatch-with-fuzziness/98867/1 "2017-08-30T14:28:21Z")
So I have 3 documents with 2 fields: title and brand
1. Title: Björn Borg R400 Low SNB schoenen heren marine/groen/wit, Brand: Björn Borg
2. Title: Baby Born Schoenen 2-Pack Assorti, Brand: Baby Born
3. Title: Born In The Echoes, Brand: Virgin Records
Now I'm doing a multi\_match query on this with the term `Björn Borg Schoenen` and a weight of 2.0 for the title and 5.0 for the brand
```
GET /my_index/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"multi_match": {
"query": "bjorn borg schoenen",
"fields": [
"title^5.0",
"brand^2.0"
],
"type": "best_fields",
"operator": "and",
"fuzziness": "auto"
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
Now the result that I would expect is the order they are in as above 1, 2 and 3. But I'm getting the results back in the order 2, 3 and 1.
The only thing I can think of why this is happening is because the word `Born` is 1 levenshtein distance away from `Bjorn` as well as from `Borg` so it matches double and the word `Schoenen` also is in the title of the 2nd document. And for the same double matching reason plus `Born` is 25% (double is 50%) of the title in the 3rd document versus 3 words in 10 equals 30% in the 1st document. But ofcourse this is not the behaviour that I would expect, let alone the behaviour that I want.
Can anyone shed a light on this? Or even provide a way to "fix" this?
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-multimatch-with-fuzziness/98867/2 "2017-08-30T14:34:52Z")
Use the "explain" api to get the raw stats.
My guess is it is down to IDF of terms selected. multi-match has a tendency to reward the most bizarre context for a word when there's matches in multiple fields because rare=good.
Try the "cross\_fields" type and remove the boosts on the field names. Cross\_fields uses some subtle boosting tricks that ensure a match for a word in the most-likely field will score higher than the least-likely field and these tweaks are undone if you apply field-level boosts for all words.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-multimatch-with-fuzziness/98867/3 "2017-09-27T14:35:22Z")
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