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You can search for terms that are similar but a bit "fuzzy". Therefore you can use the "fuzzy” operator which is a Tilde following your search term in the advanced search.

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quikc~ brwn~ foks~

The fuzzy search uses

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the Damerau-Levenshtein distance

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 to find all terms with a maximum of two changes. Changes are added, removed, or replaced single characters. The default is 2, but you can change this by adding a number to the Tilde and change it to 1, which should work for 80% of cases. 

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quikc~1

//using the default 2 (characters change)
quikc~ brwn~ foks~

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