Elastic search fuzziness in query_string

Question

I'm specifying a fuzzy_prefix_length in the query string, but a search for "tes" is not pulling up posts that are titled "test" ... any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

this is my query string setup

"query" : {
  "query_string" : {
    "query" : the-query-string-goes-here,
    "default_operator" : "AND",
    "fuzzy_prefix_length" : 3,
  }
}

Answer 1

You are, probably, missing "fuzzy" operator at the end of the query. Try this:

"query" : {
  "query_string" : {
    "query" : "tes~",
    "default_operator" : "AND",
    "fuzzy_prefix_length" : 3,
  }
}