Perform fuzzy searches

A fuzzy search is a search for text that matches your clue closely instead of exactly. Fuzzy searches can also be referred to as pattern searches. Fuzzy searches help you return results of interest even when the search terms themselves are misspelled in the documents you are searching.

Important: Fuzzy or pattern searches can be performed only on columns whose etx indexes were created with the WORD_SUPPORT = PATTERN index parameter.

This section describes the types of fuzzy searches you can perform with the module and describes, in general terms, how the search engine scores both word-level matches and document matches.