Search for an exact phrase

How it works

Wrap the phrase in quotation marks: "dinner and movie tonight" searches for these words in that order.

Examples

• "dinner and movie tonight"Open in Gmail ↗

  This exact phrase.

What it does well

• Avoids results where the words appear apart or in a different order.

What it does badly

• The help page doesn't say how Gmail treats case, punctuation or accents inside the quotation marks.Not documented by Google · Gmail Help: search operators

See also

• +Searches for the word exactly as written, without variants.
• AROUNDFinds two words separated by at most a given number of words.
• subject:Restricts the search for a word or phrase to the message's subject line.