Does MeiliSearch has fuzzy queries?

[sonic182]

Does it have fuzzy queries? and a way to customize the fuzzyness, eg: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#fuzziness

[sonic182]

I found that yes https://docs.meilisearch.com/guides/advanced_guides/typotolerance.html#typo-tolerance-rules but, there is a way to customize the fuzzyness? to allow the number of typos by search request?

[CaroFG]

Hello! Sorry for the delay in answering your questions. It's not possible to customize the number of typos allowed ATM. Don't hesitate to create an issue if you think it should be an option :)

[eikooc]

Fuzzysearch would be really nice. Writing "btm" to get "batman" would be really nice. That would make a lot of search queries way more efficient for how we perform searches.
A better example would be getting the Acme Inc. company on the right address. Inputting "Ace" could return a list with two different companies [{name: "Acme Inc.", address: "Example road 1"}, {name: "Acme Inc.", address: "Other road 1"}] and further specifying the search query as "Ace Ohr" would then give me the second hit only because that's matching the address property.

I imagine this could also be done with prefix searches on multiple words but without having the possibility of fuzzysearching

[curquiza]

Hello @eikooc thanks for your suggestion! I move this discussion to the product repository where we gather the user feedback and suggestions :)

GitHub has a bug regarding the discussion transfer, I will create one...

[curquiza]

Here: meilisearch/product#377