# Count the occurrence of words in ElasticSearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-alerting, docker
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595 "2021-12-13T06:34:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Ashrut](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashrut)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/1 "2021-12-13T06:34:31Z")
Hello Everyone,
I am a newbie in Elasticsearch.
I was wondering if there is any technique to search for the count of occurrence of a word (or an array of words) in a document.
For e.g. if I want to search for the array of words ["to", "as", "cash"], in many documents (say 100000), and at my batch size is of 25 documents. I want to count how many times, these word(s) occurred in the document and show that count on my view. i.e. I want that count (not \_score) for each document and sent that value with my response in the query so that I can use it or store it for later use.
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### Author:  [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/2 "2021-12-13T12:40:36Z")
Perhaps look into using the [term vectors API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-termvectors.html#docs-termvectors-api-term-stats)
```auto
Setting `term_statistics` to `true` (default is `false` ) will return
* total term frequency (how often a term occurs in all documents)
* document frequency (the number of documents containing the current term)
By default these values are not returned since term statistics can have a serious performance impact.
```
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### Author:  [@Ashrut](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashrut)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/3 "2021-12-13T14:58:59Z")
Hi, thanks for the reply. I want the term frequency for every single document and it is going to return me the term frequency in all documents (in my case 25). So, please can you suggest a way to deduce term frequency for each document. separately, like the \_score is for each document.
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### Author:  [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/4 "2021-12-13T15:20:40Z")
Just specify the document in the API call. For example:
```auto
POST termstest/_doc/1
{
"message": "Hi, thanks for the reply. I want the term frequency for every single document and it is going to return me the term frequency in all documents (in my case 25). So, please can you suggest a way to deduce term frequency for each document. separately, like the _score is for each document."
}
```
and then
```auto
GET termstest/_termvectors/1?fields=message
```
You'll see the term frequency of every term - and see that the word `document` is found 3 times
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### Author:  [@Ashrut](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashrut)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/5 "2021-12-14T05:20:31Z")
Thank You so much for the solution Rich. I am working on Elasticsearch 5.6 and have integrated it with rails. I will reply here after it gets implemented and work successfully. Thanks Again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-the-occurrence-of-words-in-elasticsearch/291595/6 "2022-01-11T05:20:54Z")
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