What does the fuzziness level for fuzzy searches mean?
The percent sign (%) is the character used for fuzzy searches. The number of the % indicates how many characters in the search term will be ignored by the Adaptive search engine when it runs the query.
The position of the % indicates the number of characters from the beginning of the term that must match exactly with words in the result set. The following search strings illustrate how this character is used in Workspace:
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app%lyindicates that a matching word must begin with "app", and differ from "apply" by only 1 character. -
a%%pplyindicates that a matching word must begin with "a", and differ from "apply" by only 2 characters.
The default fuzziness level is set as 1 character. See the topic Edit Adaptive Search Parameters for information.