# Suggester doesn't suggest as expected, based on beginning of word
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715 "2020-01-11T22:30:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Casper\_Thrane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Casper_Thrane)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/1 "2020-01-11T22:30:01Z")
I want ElasticSearch to suggest more words, based on the beginning of a word. My example is the following. I have these titles:
- **affaldsregister**
- **affaldsdatasystem** - Import af indberetninger
- anmod om ændring af **affaldsordning**
- ansøgning om dispensation for **affaldsregulativ**
I want the suggester to find, the words in bold, when I use the word **affald** or **afald**. I have tried the following:
```auto
POST virk_search_pub_dan/_search
{
"suggest": {
"simple_terms": {
"text": "affald",
"term": {
"max_edits": 1,
"max_term_freq": 1,
"max_inspections": 5,
"field": "title",
"size": 5,
"suggest_mode": "always",
"prefix_length": 3
}
}
}
}
```
But I get no suggestions. My title field is analyzed with the standard tokenizer. What am I missing?
Br Casper
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### Author:  [@Casper\_Thrane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Casper_Thrane)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/2 "2020-01-13T09:36:52Z")
I have create an example:
```auto
PUT test
PUT test/_doc/1
{
"title": "affaldsregister"
}
PUT test/_doc/2
{
"title": "affaldsdatasystem - Import af indberetninger"
}
PUT test/_doc/3
{
"title": "anmod om ændring af affaldsordning"
}
PUT test/_doc/4
{ "title": "ansøgning om dispensation for affaldsregulativ " }
POST test/_search
{
"suggest": {
"term_suggest": {
"text": "affald",
"term": {
"field": "title"
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/3 "2020-01-13T10:11:33Z")
In the example you posted, the edit distance to find a term is too much so elasticsearch can not suggest a correction for your incomplete/typo text.
Here is an example which works:
```auto
GET test/_search
{
"suggest": {
"term_suggest": {
"text": "affaldsdasystem",
"term": {
"field": "title"
}
}
}
}
```
It gives:
```auto
{
"took" : 10,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"skipped" : 0,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : {
"value" : 0,
"relation" : "eq"
},
"max_score" : null,
"hits" : []
},
"suggest" : {
"term_suggest" : [
{
"text" : "affaldsdasystem",
"offset" : 0,
"length" : 15,
"options" : [
{
"text" : "affaldsdatasystem",
"score" : 0.8666667,
"freq" : 1
}
]
}
]
}
}
```
If you are looking for completion, read [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/search-suggesters.html#completion-suggester](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/search-suggesters.html#completion-suggester) and [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/search-as-you-type.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/search-as-you-type.html)
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### Author:  [@Casper\_Thrane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Casper_Thrane)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/4 "2020-01-13T11:45:29Z")
Thanks for the response.
My case is, I have lot of documents, and I want suggestions like Google, based on the text in the documents. I both want single word and phase suggestions. I am not sure, how to do that, with the standard suggesters.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/5 "2020-01-16T15:06:05Z")
I believe this is what [AppSearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/app-search) can provide out of the box.
Otherwise, I think you can combine hopefully multiple suggestions within the same API call???
Not an expert on that part here. Sorry ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest-as-expected-based-on-beginning-of-word/214715/6 "2020-02-13T15:06:10Z")
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