title: Boosting field prefix match in Elasticsearch
body: <p>Is there a way to boost the scores of prefix <strong>field</strong> matches over term matches later in the field?  Most of the Elasticsearch/Lucene documentation seems to focus on terms rather than fields.</p>
  
  <p>For example, when searching for <code>femal*</code>, I'd like to have <code>Female</code> rank higher than <code>Microscopic examination of specimen from female</code>.  Is there a way to do this on the query side or would I need to do something like create a separate field consisting of the the first word?</p>