DirectSolrSpellChecker defaults with a minimum term length of 4. So you'd need to bring this down with <int name="minQueryLength">1</int>.
But you might not like the results from this. See: http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_6_0/suggest/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/DirectSpellChecker.html#setMinQueryLength%28int%29 James Dyer Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Corey Gerhardt [mailto:corey.gerha...@directwest.com] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:18 PM To: Solr User List Subject: Spell check collation Solr 4.6 Current settings for my handler: <str name="defType">edismax</str> <str name="spellcheck.maxResultsForSuggest">5</str> <str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">3</str> <str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">30</str> <str name="qf">BUS_BUSINESS_NAME_PHRASE</str> <str name="spellcheck.count">10</str> <str name="spellcheck.alternativeTermCount">10</str> <str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str> <str name="spellcheck.onlyMorePopular">false</str> <str name="spellcheck.accuracy">0.2</str> <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="classname">org.apache.solr.spelling.DirectSolrSpellChecker</str> <str name="name">default</str> <str name="field">spell</str> <str name="distanceMeasure">internal</str> <float name="accuracy">0.5</float> <int name="maxEdits">2</int> <int name="minPrefix">1</int> <int name="maxInspections">5</int> <float name="thresholdTokenFrequency">0.000001</float> <float name="maxQueryFrequency">0.0001</float> <str name="buildOnCommit">true</str> </lst> </searchComponent> I'm querying: h G's collision centre hoping for a spell check suggestion of: J G's collision centre But there are no suggestions. Is there is term length limitation to spellchecking? Thanks, Corey