Fuzzy search locates content likely to be relevant to a search argument even if that content does not match the search query exactly. Fuzzy search uses a fuzzy matching program, which returns results with likely relevance.

Optimizely Search & Navigation's "Fuzzy search" replicates the "[fuzzy query](🔗)" in Elasticsearch.

See also: [fuzziness](🔗)and the blog post [Adding fuzzy filtering to the EPiServer Search & Navigation Fluent API](🔗).

**Related blog post:** [Adding fuzzy filtering to the EPiServer Find Fluent API](🔗)