slop

Return the slop for this PhraseQuery.

The slop is an edit distance between respective positions of terms as defined in this [ ] and the positions of terms in a document.

For instance, when searching for "quick fox", it is expected that the difference between the positions of fox and quick is 1. So "a quick brown fox" would be at an edit distance of 1 since the difference of the positions of fox and quick is 2. Similarly, "the fox is quick" would be at an edit distance of 3 since the difference of the positions of fox and quick is -2. The slop defines the maximum edit distance for a document to match.

More exact matches are scored higher than sloppier matches, thus search results are sorted by exactness.