# Term Vector Access **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 21, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vector-access/2826 "2010-02-21T22:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Artie\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Artie\_Copeland](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Artie_Copeland)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vector-access/2826/1 "2010-02-21T22:40:41Z")
Is it possible to query the term vector? Say i need to know the most common terms/words in a particular shard or partition is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vector-access/2826/2 "2010-02-21T23:17:39Z")
Term vector information is not exposed yet. But in master there is a Terms API which I still need to document which basically does something similar to Compass term freqs. It allows you to return the terms in a certain field (possible sorted by their document frequency). Maybe thats what you are after? The issue for this is here: [http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/closed#issue/21](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/closed#issue/21). I will put trivial documentation in the issue later today. -shay.banon On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Artie Copeland [yestech.org@gmail.com](mailto:yestech.org@gmail.com)wrote: > Is it possible to query the term vector? Say i need to know the most > common terms/words in a particular shard or partition is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vector-access/2826/3 "2017-07-06T04:25:35Z")