Expanding Search Words

Understanding Expansion Levels

When you expand a search word, you see a message showing the current expansion level.

There are four expansion levels. Each level adds related words to your search.

Expansion Level 1 is the unexpanded search word (e.g., belief) alone. Level 2 adds inflections (e.g., believe and believed). Level 3 adds compound and related words (e.g., believer and unbelief). Level 4 adds synonyms (e.g., understand and obeyed).

If an expansion level adds no words, the expansion automatically moves to the next level. For that reason, many words are fully expanded to Level 4 after less than three expansions.

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