# Thai Chan or Chan Thai if searched with fuzzy search gets timed out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thai-chan-or-chan-thai-if-searched-with-fuzzy-search-gets-timed-out/381978>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [September 16, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thai-chan-or-chan-thai-if-searched-with-fuzzy-search-gets-timed-out/381978 "2025-09-16T11:21:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![kanad\_45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@kanad\_45](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanad_45)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thai-chan-or-chan-thai-if-searched-with-fuzzy-search-gets-timed-out/381978/1 "2025-09-16T11:21:05Z")

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whenever I’m searching the above terms getting time out why when searched with Chan gets timed out  
I’m using with span, wild cards multiple queries along with it

```auto
{
    "names": [
        "Thai Chan",
        "Chan Thai"
    ],
    "fuzzy": "moderate"
}

```

Along with it I'm sending span as well as wild card queries, problem is with this name, same query if I try Elon musk, then it works fine why it happens

max expansion I'm using is 1024

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thai-chan-or-chan-thai-if-searched-with-fuzzy-search-gets-timed-out/381978/2 "2025-09-16T11:23:27Z")

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Please share the query, mapping and version of Elasticsearch you are using. Information about the size of the data you are querying would also be useful.