# Synonym and stopwords file elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 10, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683 "2016-05-10T16:03:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@loez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loez1)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/1 "2016-05-10T16:03:15Z")
Hello,
I'm looking for 2 files elasticsearch which define synonyms and stopwords in english and french to download ! I don't know if it exists or I should creat it by myself !
I need also to know if that file has a specific structure or I need just to write synonyms separated by ","
Thank you !
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### Author:  [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/2 "2016-05-10T20:52:06Z")
Wrt. to synonyms you might find the following docs helpful:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/using-synonyms.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/using-synonyms.html)
As for stopwords: THe default stopword lists are the ones shipped with Lucene, for more on that see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/using-stopwords.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/using-stopwords.html)
Hope this helps,
Isabel
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### Author:  [@loez1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loez1)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/3 "2016-05-11T08:51:29Z")
Thank you ! That helps me a lot 😉 especially stopwords part but I can't find the correct format for a synonym file yet !!! I created a file with words separated by "," but it not seems working !
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### Author:  [@thn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thn)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/4 "2016-05-11T11:51:40Z")
This site has stopwords list in many different languages that you can use
[http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords](http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords)
If you are happy with the default lists from Lucene, I suggest use them.
If you need a specific list due to the domain you are working on, I suggest to use external stopwords list files so you can customize the list.
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### Author:  [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/5 "2016-05-12T07:56:53Z")
Wrt. to synonym formatting - it's discussed in the page linked from what I provided you:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/synonym-formats.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/synonym-formats.html)
Is that not working for you?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synonym-and-stopwords-file-elasticsearch/49683/6 "2017-07-05T22:52:12Z")