[LUCENE-2557] FuzzyQuery - fuzzy terms and misspellings are ranked higher than exact matches

• Type: Bug
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.2
• Component/s: core/query/scoring
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jingkei Ly
• Created: 23/Jul/10 16:22
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:29

Description

The FuzzyQuery often causes misspellings to be ranked higher than the exact match, which seems to be an undesirable property generally.

For example, in an index of surnames, if I search using a FuzzyQuery for "smith", the misspellings such as "smiith", or "smiht" would appear near the top of the search results ahead of documents that match "smith".