# Whole word search with elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whole-word-search-with-elasticsearch/34164>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 9, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whole-word-search-with-elasticsearch/34164 "2015-11-09T15:40:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![\_axl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/91b2a8/32.png) [@\_axl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_axl)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whole-word-search-with-elasticsearch/34164/1 "2015-11-09T15:40:48Z")

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Just started wtih elasticsearch. And stuck with a question:  
I have following strings in my es index:

"favourites", "favourites\a1"

If I try to search only first string with

```
'query' => [
    'match' => [
        'name' => 'favourites'
    ]
],

```

or

```
'filtered' => [
    'filter' => [
        'term' => [
            'name' => 'favourites'
        ],
    ]
]

```

It matchs both. How to solve it?

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whole-word-search-with-elasticsearch/34164/2 "2015-11-09T16:23:02Z")

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Read about (mappings)[[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping.html)] and (analyzers)[[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-analyzers.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-analyzers.html)]. The default mapping uses the default analyzer which will break words at punctuation-like-things.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whole-word-search-with-elasticsearch/34164/3 "2017-07-05T23:39:45Z")

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