# Inverted Index for each fields of a Document in Lucene?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 3, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756 "2016-06-03T05:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![skumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@skumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skumar)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756/1 "2016-06-03T05:42:33Z")

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Does Lucene creates inverted index for each field name in documents ? How can we search for a word which belongs to a particular field?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756/2 "2016-06-03T05:54:50Z")

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Yes.

Have a look at the QueryDSL and use a match query for example.

You can also search with a syntax like: \_search?q=field:term

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**Author:** ![skumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@skumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skumar)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756/3 "2016-06-06T09:28:54Z")

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Thanks dadoonet!

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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, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/inverted-index-for-each-fields-of-a-document-in-lucene/51756/4 "2017-07-05T22:46:00Z")

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