# Where can I find Dutch word lists
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-i-find-dutch-word-lists/384649
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 20, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-i-find-dutch-word-lists/384649 "2026-01-20T15:16:03Z")
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### Author:  [@jberkvens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jberkvens)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-i-find-dutch-word-lists/384649/1 "2026-01-20T15:16:03Z")
I’m trying to make my pages searchable by indexing the page contents in Elasticsearch, but currently it can’t find a page that talks about “koffiekopjes” when I search for “koffie” (Dutch compound words). I found this article [How to search languages with compound words - Elasticsearch Labs](https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/compound-word-search) and that helps to at least understand how to fix it, though it. I’m quite certain that I indeed need to implement a hyphenation\_decompounder, but it requires a word\_list(\_file) and even though the article links to such a list for German, I can’t seem to find one for Dutch.
I can’t imagine I’m the first person trying to look for one, but I can’t seem to find it. Does anyone know of a good one? Or perhaps the correct terminology to search for it? Or am I misunderstanding something and don’t I actually need one?
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### Author:  [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-can-i-find-dutch-word-lists/384649/2 "2026-01-25T02:39:20Z")
Hello @jberkvens
Welcome to the Community!!
I see below wordlist.txt related to Dutch on github if it can be helpful :
> **[GitHub - OpenTaal/opentaal-wordlist: 🇳🇱🇧🇪🇸🇷 Dutch word list by OpenTaal](https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-wordlist)**
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> 🇳🇱🇧🇪🇸🇷 Dutch word list by OpenTaal
Thanks!!