# Elastic search suggest Doc count

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-suggest-doc-count/38187>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-suggest-doc-count/38187 "2015-12-30T16:22:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Arvind\_Kumar\_Chigura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Arvind\_Kumar\_Chigura](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arvind_Kumar_Chigura)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-suggest-doc-count/38187/1 "2015-12-30T16:22:12Z")

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When I run a suggest , I am looking to get back the number of documents the term as found.

Currently I only get hits and not document, is there a way to retrieve the doc count ?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-suggest-doc-count/38187/2 "2017-07-05T23:27:50Z")

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