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Expand Up @@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ The fuzzy query uses similarity based on Levenshtein edit distance.

==== String fields

The `fuzzy` query generates all possible matching terms that are within the
The `fuzzy` query generates matching terms that are within the
maximum edit distance specified in `fuzziness` and then checks the term
dictionary to find out which of those generated terms actually exist in the
index.
index. The final query uses up to `max_expansions` matching terms.

Here is a simple example:

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