Title: Partial match does not match
Last modified: May 15, 2023

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# Partial match does not match

 *  Resolved [morvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morvy/)
 * (@morvy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a strange issue here with partial matching. I believe everything is set
   correctly – AND with OR fallback, Partial Match (basically default behavior).
 * I have a product with “Rundes” in the title, some products with “Runde” in the
   title or in the description. If I search for “rund” I get 0 results. If I search
   for “runde” I get both Rundes and Runde products which is correct. Is there a
   limit for characters that has something to do with partial matching? I have 3
   characters for minimal word length.
 * Thanks for your help!

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738223)
 * Let me guess: your site is in German?
 * “Rund” is in the German stopword list; that would explain why it’s not working.
   You can remove the word from the stopword list, and it’ll start working.
 *  Thread Starter [morvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morvy/)
 * (@morvy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738231)
 * The site is WPML – default German, additionaly English.
 * I’ve checked stopwords, it has only some english stopwords, only 1 german which
   is “und”. “rund” is not there, closest match is that “und”. I tried to remove
   it, without change after reindexing.
 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738410)
 * Partial stopword match doesn’t matter, only “rund” would be a problem.
 * If it’s not the stopwords, then I don’t know. Nothing obvious comes to my mind.
   Does “run” work? Is it only “rund”, or anything shorter than that?
 *  Thread Starter [morvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morvy/)
 * (@morvy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738419)
 * Just tried “run” and it works, returns a different order, but matches all the
   products it should match. So it’s really only the “rund” that is not working.
   I tried to add it to stopwords and remove but without any effect.
 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738427)
 * And just to make sure, you’re working with the right language stopwords? There’s
   a separate set of stopwords for each language when you use WPML.
 *  Thread Starter [morvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morvy/)
 * (@morvy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-match-does-not-match/#post-16738816)
 * OK, this must’ve been an issue in the DB or something. I disabled the plugin,
   re-enabled it and there are now hundreds of stopwords in both languages, including“
   rund” in German. Removed it, reindexed just to be sure and now it works correctly.
 * Thanks a lot!
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by [morvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morvy/).

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