Title: Partial Search Term
Last modified: July 17, 2022

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# Partial Search Term

 *  Resolved [jlstysis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlstysis/)
 * (@jlstysis)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-search-term/)
 * Is it possible to configure relevanssi to match a certain part of the search 
   term?
    For example, if a user searches for the term “running” to return all results
   that match “run”. I understand relevanssi does partial matching when the search
   term matches the beginning or the end of the result, but I need the opposite 
   for the result to match a part of the search term. Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-search-term/#post-15831793)
 * You can modify the search term before the search is done. It’s possible to automatically
   convert all searches for “running” to searches for “run”. You can use the [`relevanssi_modify_wp_query`](https://www.relevanssi.com/user-manual/filter-hooks/relevanssi_modify_wp_query/)
   filter hook to change the search term (which is in `$query->query_vars['s']`).
 * If you’re looking for stemming in general, there’s [Relevanssi Snowball Stemmer](https://www.relevanssi.com/snowball-stemmer/)
   which does stemming in English (and several other languages), but that requires
   Relevanssi Premium.
 *  Thread Starter [jlstysis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlstysis/)
 * (@jlstysis)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-search-term/#post-15831800)
 * Yes, stemming is what I need. Thank you very much!

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-search-term/#post-15831800)
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