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Asked: 2026-05-31T05:46:59+00:00

I’ve setup a fulltext search to listen on the title and description columns for

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I’ve setup a fulltext search to listen on the title and description columns for my blog articles table in MySQL. The SQL that I use to search the table is as follows:

SELECT title,description,publish_date FROM table WHERE MATCH(title,description) AGAINST(‘cats’,’dogs’) ORDER BY publish_date DESC LIMIT 100

This works (for ‘dogs’ and ‘cats’), but when I use the singular (‘dog’ or ‘cat’) then I find no results. Not sure why this is going on, I’ve tried different variations like “+dog, +cat” and tried including IN BOOLEAN MODE as well … Nothing works. And Yes I am sure that there are other words in the description column that are “dog” and “cat” as well as their plural versions.

How can I get singular words to work with MySQL?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The default minimum word length for full-text searches is 4 characters.

    You’ll need to change that in the server configuration. See here for some info on how to do it.

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