diff --git a/assets/js/flexsearch.js b/assets/js/flexsearch.js
index 15e5a1d2..1c5eb35b 100644
--- a/assets/js/flexsearch.js
+++ b/assets/js/flexsearch.js
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
 
   // Preload the search index.
   async function preloadIndex() {
+    const tokenize = '{{- site.Params.search.flexsearch.tokenize | default  "forward" -}}';
     window.pageIndex = new FlexSearch.Document({
-      tokenize: 'forward',
+      tokenize,
       cache: 100,
       document: {
         id: 'id',
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
     });
 
     window.sectionIndex = new FlexSearch.Document({
-      tokenize: 'forward',
+      tokenize,
       cache: 100,
       document: {
         id: 'id',
diff --git a/exampleSite/hugo.yaml b/exampleSite/hugo.yaml
index 1def5550..0da0ad99 100644
--- a/exampleSite/hugo.yaml
+++ b/exampleSite/hugo.yaml
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ params:
     flexsearch:
       # index page by: content | summary | heading | title
       index: content
+      # full | forward | reverse | strict 
+      # https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch/#tokenizer-prefix-search
+      tokenize: forward
 
   editURL:
     enable: true