# What is the best english stemmer for elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-english-stemmer-for-elasticsearch/236965>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 13, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-english-stemmer-for-elasticsearch/236965 "2020-06-13T07:41:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![WAFA\_Mardiney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wafa_mardiney/32/65461_2.png) [@WAFA\_Mardiney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WAFA_Mardiney)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-english-stemmer-for-elasticsearch/236965/1 "2020-06-13T07:41:39Z")

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I've been looking through each stemmer is provided by elasticsearch but none of them is giving me the result I want, what I'm really interested is the word 'Recovery' I want it to be 'Recover' or 'Recov' ,the user will enter 'recovery/recovered/recover' and these words are not stemmed to the same word, here is some examples on what I have tried:  
snowball,stemmer,porter\_stem all with [english]:  
recoveri

kstem:  
recovery

snowball with [lovins]:  
recov (recovery)   
recover(recovered)

P.S: I don't want to use synonyms cuz this is not practical and "Recovery" example is one case of an infinity cases

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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:** [July 11, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-english-stemmer-for-elasticsearch/236965/2 "2020-07-11T07:55:51Z")

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Closed on July 11, 2020, 7:55am UTC

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