Search - Misspellings Recommendations Metric/Dimension

Analytics
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Is there a metric or dimension I can use in search reporting to show search query suggestions? For example, if I search for “glucouse control solution”, it’s corrected to “glucose control solution”. Is there a way to report on “top misspelled terms” within Yext?

"spellCheck": {
            "originalQuery": "glucouse control solution",
            "correctedQuery": {
                "value": "glucose control solution",
                "matchedSubstrings": [
                    {
                        "offset": 0,
                        "length": 7
                    }
                ]
            },
            "type": "SUGGEST"
        },
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Hi Zach,

What are you trying to achieve with this reporting? We don’t currently have a dimension on spell check suggestions.

We do have an experience training table for spell checking in the platform that allows you to accept or reject suggestions. One idea is to add a column for number of searches that you could sort by, similar to what we do for search terms and search term clusters. If this is what you’re looking for, feel free to submit a feature request to the Ideas board!

Another idea is you could create a top search terms report in report builder, which would include misspelled terms if the search count is high enough.

Keep in mind that search term clusters should include misspellings in the groups with the suggested spelling since search terms are grouped by intent.

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Thanks for the response, @Kristy_Huang . Yext treats corrected misspellings different from a correct search. See below for an example from our site. I can DM you the API query requests. What I’m trying to answer is how many times an incorrect term is searched. The trouble with the queries report is that there isn’t a structured piece of data that says “Mispelling:TRUE/FALSE”. If I had that, I could quickly identify those terms that Yext served a “SUGGEST” for.

I like your idea to add a column for number of searches to the spell-checking table. I’ll submit that as an idea!

Example
A query for “hemtology” (which is corrected with a SUGGEST to “hematology”) returns:

  • 1 result in the publications vertical
  • 1 result in the news_insights vertical.

A query for “hematology” returns:

  • 1 result in the publications vertical
  • 3 result in the news_insights vertical
  • 9 results in the links vertical.