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title: Wildcard Query
pubDate: 2026-08-17T09:53:44.266Z
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# Wildcard Query

A _wildcard_ query uses a wildcard expression, to search within individual terms for matches. Wildcard expressions can be any single character (`?`) or zero to many characters (`*`). Wildcard expressions can appear in the middle or end of a term, but not at the beginning. Please note that the wildcard query is a non-analytic query, meaning it won't perform any text analysis on the query text.

```json
{
 "wildcard": "inter*",
 "field": "reviews.content"
}
```

A demonstration of a wildcard query using the Java SDK can be found in [Searching from the SDK](#3.2@java-sdk::full-text-searching-with-sdk.adoc).