# Split word that contains two words

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-word-that-contains-two-words/73679>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 2, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-word-that-contains-two-words/73679 "2017-02-02T12:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![guybarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@guybarnea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guybarnea)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-word-that-contains-two-words/73679/1 "2017-02-02T12:51:26Z")

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HI,  
we have a plugin (tokenizer) on elastic v5.1.1. My question is,  
how can we split a word that contains two words?  
for example:  
we want to return the words "house" and "keeper" for the word "housekeeper".

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mnozawa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mnozawa/32/15091_2.png) [@mnozawa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mnozawa)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-word-that-contains-two-words/73679/2 "2017-02-02T14:20:01Z")

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Hi,

This article may help you.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24988574/elasticsearch-breaking-english-compound-words>

mnozawa

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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:** [March 2, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-word-that-contains-two-words/73679/3 "2017-03-02T14:20:31Z")

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