# Highlight cuts of words **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 20, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-cuts-of-words/5919 "2011-11-20T08:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert\_Grundler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robert_grundler/32/3068_2.png) [@Robert\_Grundler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robert_Grundler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-cuts-of-words/5919/1 "2011-11-20T08:46:32Z")
Hi, when using highlighting with the fragment\_size parameter, ES returns snippets with cut-off words at the beginning. eg. "The quick brown fox" will return "ck brown _fox_". Is there a way to make ES start the highlight snippets at the beginning of a word? thanks! -robert ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-cuts-of-words/5919/2 "2011-11-20T09:02:02Z")
No, when highlighting over term vector based fields. Though support for it has been added to the "fast highlighter" in Lucene 3.5 I believe. 2011/11/20 Robert Gründler [r.gruendler@gmail.com](mailto:r.gruendler@gmail.com) > Hi, > > when using highlighting with the fragment\_size parameter, ES returns > snippets > with cut-off words at the beginning. eg. "The quick brown fox" will return > "ck brown _fox_". > > Is there a way to make ES start the highlight snippets at the beginning of > a word? > > thanks! > > -robert ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-cuts-of-words/5919/3 "2017-07-06T03:48:07Z")