# Why does ES search letter by letter ?!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 11, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746 "2016-05-11T09:29:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![loez1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loez1/32/9274_2.png) [@loez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loez1)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746/1 "2016-05-11T09:29:26Z")

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Hello,

I was wondering why elasticsearch display also results containing just some letters of my key word

exemple : I was looking for **Store** , elasticsearch display also results with **or**!!!

Can we desactivate this option ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746/2 "2016-05-11T09:43:25Z")

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What sort of search are you doing?

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**Author:** ![loez1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loez1/32/9274_2.png) [@loez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loez1)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746/3 "2016-05-11T10:59:14Z")

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I try to search queryTxt using this query

```
 body:
                query:
                  function_score:
                    query:
                      query_string:
                        fields: ["Name_OBJ^5","Name_OBJ.folded^1"]
                        query: queryTxt
                    boost_mode: "multiply"
```

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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, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-es-search-letter-by-letter/49746/4 "2017-07-05T22:52:31Z")

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