Thanks both! James, I like that approach. I'll give it a try. I forgot to mention I was only using query-time synonyms but shouldn't be a problem in my case to add synonyms during index-time.
Ryan On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 at 22:07 Dyer, James <james.d...@ingramcontent.com> wrote: > Ryan, > > If you use index-time synonyms on the spellcheck field, this will give you > what you want. > > For instance, if the document has "lawyer" and you index both terms > "lawyer","attorney", then the spellchecker will see that "atorney" is 1 > edit away from an indexed term and will suggest "attorney". > > You'll need to have the same synonyms set up against the query field, but > you have the option of making these query-time synonyms if you prefer. > > James Dyer > Ingram Content Group > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Yacyshyn [mailto:ryan.yacys...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 2:28 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Spell checking the synonym list? > > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if it's possible to have spell checking performed on terms in > the synonym list? > > For example, let's say I have documents with the word "lawyer" in them and > I add "lawyer, attorney" in the synonyms.txt file. Then a query is made for > the word "atorney". Is there any way to provide spell checking on this? > > Thanks, > Ryan >
