---
title: Full-Text / Lexical Search
description: Full-text query syntax, scoring, filtering, sorting, and highlighting
canonical: https://www.paradedb.com/docs/reference/full-text/overview
---

Use these pages for ParadeDB full-text query syntax, text analysis, filtering,
sorting, scoring, and highlighting. For the mental model, see [How Text Search
Works](/concepts/full-text/overview).

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card
    title="Text Analysis"
    icon="language"
    href="/reference/tokenizers/overview"
  >
    Configure tokenizers, token filters, and per-field text processing.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Query Types"
    icon="magnifying-glass"
    href="/reference/full-text/match"
  >
    Choose the core predicate for tokenized text, exact terms, and ordered
    phrases.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Advanced Query Functions"
    icon="wand-magic-sparkles"
    href="/reference/full-text/query-builder"
  >
    Use fuzzy, regex, proximity, more-like-this, range, and all-row query
    builders.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Query Parser"
    icon="terminal"
    href="/reference/full-text/query-parser"
  >
    Accept Tantivy query strings from users when you need parser syntax.
  </Card>
  <Card
    title="Filtering and Sorting"
    icon="arrow-down-wide-short"
    href="/reference/filtering/overview"
  >
    Push filters and Top K ordering into ParadeDB queries.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Relevance Tuning" icon="gauge" href="/reference/full-text/score">
    Sort by BM25 score, tune relevance, and highlight matched text.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>