Searching for an exact term

You have probably encountered cases where you only want to find items containing an exact term, and aren’t interested in items containing variants of this term. In such cases, you need to use an exact term query syntax. This syntax disables the otherwise useful stemming feature that expands the search to words with the same root.

In the search box, type the exact desired term preceded by the plus sign (+, the exact match prefix), and then click Search. Only items containing the desired term will be returned, and terms of the same family that are normally searched as well will be ignored.

For example, +performance returns only items containing the exact word performance. Items containing same root words such as performed or performing aren’t returned, as opposed to when stemming is enabled.

Similarly, imagine speciel is a product name or a word in another language. With +speciel, only items containing the exact word speciel are returned. Spell corrections or automatic replacement of speciel with the English word special aren’t suggested.

You can combine exact match terms with normal term search in the same query.

For example, employee +performance engineering returns only items containing the exact word performance as well as the words employee and engineering and their variant forms. Items containing same root words such as performed or performing aren’t returned.

The + prefix also forces the exact match for terms containing accented characters. This feature is useful with languages using accents such as French, Spanish, or Swedish.

For example, +déjà returns only items containing the exact word déjà. Items containing accented character variants such as déja or no accented characters such as deja aren’t returned.

If you have querying issues, see Troubleshoot querying issues.