elasticsearch/docs/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-span-multi-term-query.md
Craig Taverner 94cad286bc
Restructure query-languages docs files for clarity (#124797)
In a few previous PR's we restructured the ES|QL docs to make it possible to generate them dynamically.

This PR just moves a few files around to make the query languages docs easier to work with, and a little more organized like the ES|QL docs.

A bit part of this was setting up redirects to the new locations, so other repo's could correctly link to the elasticsearch docs.
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navigation_title: "Span multi-term"
mapped_pages:
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-span-multi-term-query.html
---
# Span multi-term query [query-dsl-span-multi-term-query]
The `span_multi` query allows you to wrap a `multi term query` (one of wildcard, fuzzy, prefix, range or regexp query) as a `span query`, so it can be nested. Example:
```console
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"span_multi": {
"match": {
"prefix": { "user.id": { "value": "ki" } }
}
}
}
}
```
A boost can also be associated with the query:
```console
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"span_multi": {
"match": {
"prefix": { "user.id": { "value": "ki", "boost": 1.08 } }
}
}
}
}
```
::::{warning}
`span_multi` queries will hit too many clauses failure if the number of terms that match the query exceeds the `indices.query.bool.max_clause_count` [search setting](/reference/elasticsearch/configuration-reference/search-settings.md). To avoid an unbounded expansion you can set the [rewrite method](/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-multi-term-rewrite.md) of the multi term query to `top_terms_*` rewrite. Or, if you use `span_multi` on `prefix` query only, you can activate the [`index_prefixes`](/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/index-prefixes.md) field option of the `text` field instead. This will rewrite any prefix query on the field to a single term query that matches the indexed prefix.
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