# Words with apostrophe give non-matches when queried?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/words-with-apostrophe-give-non-matches-when-queried/26039>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/words-with-apostrophe-give-non-matches-when-queried/26039 "2015-07-22T06:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![apanimesh061](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/apanimesh061/32/927_2.png) [@apanimesh061](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/apanimesh061)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/words-with-apostrophe-give-non-matches-when-queried/26039/1 "2015-07-22T06:05:26Z")

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I have a term `play'` which when I pass to a search query gives me many documents but only like 2-3 actually having `play'`. Others mostly have versions of `plai` since I am using the Porter Stemmer.

This raises an issue when I am trying to get the term vectors of the above documents as `play'` is not in the term vectors of most of the returned documents.

Is there any way I can solve this issue?

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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 6, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/words-with-apostrophe-give-non-matches-when-queried/26039/2 "2017-07-06T00:00:03Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:00am UTC