# Why I'm getting 0 results when fuzziness is more than 2?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-im-getting-0-results-when-fuzziness-is-more-than-2/307883
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-im-getting-0-results-when-fuzziness-is-more-than-2/307883 "2022-06-22T13:27:13Z")
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### Author:  [@asil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asil)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-im-getting-0-results-when-fuzziness-is-more-than-2/307883/1 "2022-06-22T13:27:13Z")
I'm using `elastic search 7.6.2`
I have index with the following mapping:
```auto
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"content": {"type": "text"},
}
}
```
with 3 documents:
1. michael jordan and scottie pippen - NBA is a professional basketball league in North America.
2. michael jordan and scottie pippen - National Basketball Association
3. michael jordan and scottie pippen
I'm running the following simple query:
```auto
"query":{
"bool":{
"must":[
{
"span_near":{
"clauses":[
{
"span_multi":{
"match":{
"fuzzy":{
"content":{
"value":"hael",
"fuzziness":4
}
}
}
}
},
],
"slop":1,
"in_order": "true"
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
And I'm getting 0 results.
1. Why I'm not getting results ? (The value `hael` has 3 missing letters, and the `fuzziness` is 4) ?
2. What is the meaning of `slop` (at the end of the query) ? (It seems that it doesn't do nothing)
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-im-getting-0-results-when-fuzziness-is-more-than-2/307883/2 "2022-06-22T13:31:13Z")
The [maximum value for fuzziness that Elasticsearch supports is 2](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.2/common-options.html#fuzziness). I am surprised it does not return an error indicating this.
It is worth noting that the query you specified witha 4 letter string and fuzziness of 4 would (if there was not a limitation in place) match any word with 4 or less letters as well as a lot of words that are up to 4 characters longer assuming they contain some of the characters in the string. This would return very useful results.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-im-getting-0-results-when-fuzziness-is-more-than-2/307883/3 "2022-07-20T13:31:52Z")
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