# Suggester doesn't suggest

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest/119570>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 13, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest/119570 "2018-02-13T03:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![panfng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@panfng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/panfng)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest/119570/1 "2018-02-13T03:39:57Z")

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I'm using a phrase suggester to implement "did you mean" feature.  
For text "civenchy", it will suggest "givenchy". But for text "chivenchy" it doesn't return any suggestion.  
Note that both "civenchy" and "chivenchy" don't exist in the documents. So I think this may be related to string distance algo? Is there a way to fix or debug it?

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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:** [March 13, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/suggester-doesnt-suggest/119570/2 "2018-03-13T03:40:00Z")

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