The search for the full word arkadicolson exceeds 8 characters so thats why
it's not working.
The fix is to add another field that will tokenize into full words.
The query would look like this
some_field_ngram:arkadicolson AND some_field_whole_word:arkadicolson
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With the help of this list, I solved a similar issue by altering my query as
follows:
Before (did not return full word matches): q=searchTerm*
After (returned full-word matches and wildcard searches as you would expect):
q=searchTerm OR searchTerm*
You can also boost the exact match by doing th
