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The following is a list of the pre-bundled scoring functions available in Redis and a short explanation about how they work. Each function is mentioned by registered name, which can be passed as a `SCORER` argument in [`FT.SEARCH`]({{< relref "/commands/ft.search/" >}}).

## TFIDF (default)
## TFIDF

Basic [TF-IDF scoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf) with a few extra features:

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FT.SEARCH myIndex "foo" SCORER TFIDF.DOCNORM
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## BM25
## BM25 (default)

A variation on the basic `TFIDF` scorer, see [this Wikipedia article for more info](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25).

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