# Is there a way for ES to config maximum size for a single term?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 19, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419 "2016-08-19T02:04:44Z")
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### Author:  [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419/1 "2016-08-19T02:04:44Z")
default max length is 32766.
I'd like to make it small.
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### Author:  [@rmuir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmuir)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419/2 "2016-08-19T02:25:05Z")
Yes, you can do this with the analysis chain: depending if you want to drop the too-big tokens ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-length-tokenfilter.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-length-tokenfilter.html)) or truncate them to a smaller size ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-truncate-tokenfilter.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-truncate-tokenfilter.html))
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### Author:  [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419/3 "2016-08-19T03:38:59Z")
> [@rmuir](#):
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> [Truncate token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-truncate-tokenfilter.html)
got it. thanks very much
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-for-es-to-config-maximum-size-for-a-single-term/58419/4 "2017-07-05T22:26:49Z")