# App search - synonyms

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590 "2022-06-30T14:00:10Z")
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### Author: ![kanavsha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kanavsha/32/107517_2.png) [@kanavsha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanavsha)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590/1 "2022-06-30T14:00:10Z")

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Hello,

Just a quick thing :

Given - I have an understanding that we need to add synonyms to the engines where we want to search using similar meaning words.  
Question - Is synonyms for basic or obvious words are taken care themselves like (male-man, cloth-fabric etc) ? As There are some words I may need to tell the engine explicitly but If I am searching for "male" a result should appear for "man" as well.

Please let me know if such functionality exists or any integration that I can do to reduce my burden of providing thousands of synonyms otherwise.

Thanks,  
Kanav Sharma

Thanks,  
Kanav Sharma

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### Author: ![kanavsha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kanavsha/32/107517_2.png) [@kanavsha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanavsha)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590/2 "2022-07-11T06:17:14Z")

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Team @Elastic, Kindly suggest.

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### Author: ![Carlos\_D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_d/32/126245_2.png) [@Carlos\_D](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_D)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590/3 "2022-07-18T07:46:52Z")

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hi @kanavsha :

I'm afraid there are no preset synonyms in App Search.

However, you can use the [Synonyms API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/8.3/synonyms-guide.html#synonyms-guide-api) to perform an automated ingestion of synonyms from an external source or thesaurus.

Keep in mind that synonyms are not compatible with [precision tuning](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/8.3/precision-tuning.html)!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/app-search-synonyms/308590/4 "2022-08-15T07:47:03Z")

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