# Single word suggester or autocomplete single word **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 2, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754 "2021-12-02T11:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pranjali\_dhumal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@pranjali\_dhumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranjali_dhumal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/1 "2021-12-02T11:15:11Z")
Hello Everyone, Problem: Lets consider I have a index for books And I have following book documents with name "Manage your time" "Improvement management skills" "The making of manager" "How to manage people" "Managers guide" So I type manage in the search the query output should be "manage", "management", "manager", "managers" i.e. I don't want the matching document I just want a autocomplete for the word or word suggester ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/2 "2021-12-02T11:21:56Z")
Hi pranjali, The new [terms\_enum](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-terms-enum.html) api can do this on text fields where the book title has been tokenised into words. ---
**Author:** ![pranjali\_dhumal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@pranjali\_dhumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranjali_dhumal)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/3 "2021-12-03T06:19:56Z")
@Mark_Harwood Thank you for the solution. Do I have to provide any mapping while the index creation? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/4 "2021-12-03T08:19:00Z")
No, a default mapping will be created for you if you don’t supply one on index creation. ---
**Author:** ![pranjali\_dhumal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@pranjali\_dhumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranjali_dhumal)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/5 "2021-12-03T08:47:59Z")
I am getting a empty terms array as a result `{ "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "terms": [], "complete": true }` when I try to search "manage" ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/9/29d5c7d8330417daf9ce838e6152dc955f10db02.png) is there something wrong in my mapping? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/6 "2021-12-06T09:47:18Z")
My apologies. During development an earlier version of this API supported `text` fields but the released version doesn't and is mainly for use on `keyword` fields. ---
**Author:** ![pranjali\_dhumal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@pranjali\_dhumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranjali_dhumal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/7 "2021-12-06T10:27:52Z")
No problem. I even tried with keyword field but it still return an empty array ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/8 "2021-12-06T10:56:11Z")
> [@pranjali\_dhumal](#): > > I even tried with keyword field but it still return an empty array That would be because the terms\_enum API only looks for index matches that start with the provided search string. Keyword fields don't chop document strings into multiple words so the indexed string will be the full value e.g. `How to manage people` and it doesn't begin with the search string `manage` ---
**Author:** ![pranjali\_dhumal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@pranjali\_dhumal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranjali_dhumal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/9 "2021-12-07T06:27:20Z")
Okay. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-word-suggester-or-autocomplete-single-word/290754/10 "2022-01-04T06:27:55Z")
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