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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:29:29+00:00

I am implementing sphinx search in my rails application. I want to search with

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I am implementing sphinx search in my rails application.
I want to search with fuzzy on. It should search for spelling mistakes e.g if is enter search query charact*a*ristics, it should search for charact*e*ristics.

How should I implement this

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sphinx doesn’t naturally allow for spelling mistakes – it doesn’t care if the words are spelled correctly or not, it just indexes them and matches them.

    There’s two options around this – either use thinking-sphinx-raspell to catch spelling errors by users when they search, and offer them the choice to search again with an improved query (much like Google does); or maybe use the soundex or metaphone morphologies so words are indexed in a way that accounts for how they sound. Search on this page for stemming, you’ll find the relevant section. Also have a read of Sphinx’s documentation on the matter as well.

    I’ve no idea how reliable either option would be – personally, I’d opt for #1.

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