fuzziness in bool query with multimatch elasticsearch

Question

i am using elasticsearch version 6.3.0. I want to use fuzziness along with multimatch. but there is no option for that. Can anybody provide me a solution ? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

What makes you think there is no option for fuzziness on a multi-match query?

For example, with the data below:

http://localhost:9200/question_1/doc/_bulk
{"index":{}}
{"name" : "John Lazy", "text": "lazzi"}
{"index":{}}
{"name" : "John Lassi", "text": "lasso"}
{"index":{}}
{"name" : "Joan Labbe", "text": "lazzy"}

And this query:

http://localhost:9200/question_1/_search
{
  "query": {
    "multi_match" : {
      "query" : "lazi",
      "fields" : [ "name", "text" ],
      "fuzziness": 1
    }
  }
}

Then I get one result, but if I change the fuzziness parameter to 2 I'll get three results.