# Word count/frequency per field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910 "2018-12-07T10:37:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910/1 "2018-12-07T10:37:39Z")
Hi there,
is there any convenient way to get the count of words/tokens in some fields of a document?
for example:
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?pretty=true)' -d '{
"text1" : "twitter, test, test, test ",
"text2" : "test, test, man, two "
}'
then count words that I need from that document are:
text1:{
"twitter":1,
"test":3
},
text2: {
"test":2,
"man":1,
"two":1
}
or something similar
I know I can use termvector but I could not really understand how this can help me.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@SaskiaVola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SaskiaVola)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910/2 "2018-12-10T14:10:48Z")
Hey,
the [`_termvector` API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/docs-termvectors.html) is the best way to access information about term statistics in Elasticsearch after your data has been indexed.
If you want to get the length of a field in tokens, you can use the [type `token_count` in your mapping](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/token-count.html).
What problem are you trying to solve?
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### Author:  [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910/3 "2018-12-13T16:37:30Z")
Thanks for your answer.
I have tried termvector API it does almost what I expect however, I have to run it on one specific document I could not run it on my entire index. so following the same example I showed.
My request looks like:
GET my\_index/doc/someid123/\_termvectors
{
"fields": ["text1"]
}
and then the reply I get:
{
"\_index": "my\_index",
"\_type": "doc",
"\_id": "someid123",
"\_version": 2,
"found": true,
"took": 1,
"term\_vectors": {
"text1": {
"field\_statistics": {
"sum\_doc\_freq": 56,
"doc\_count": 54,
"sum\_ttf": 60
},
"terms": {
"test": {
"term\_freq": 3,
"tokens": [
{
"position": 0,
"start\_offset": 9,
"end\_offset": 12
},
{
"position": 1,
"start\_offset": 15,
"end\_offset": 19
},
{
"position": 2,
"start\_offset": 21,
"end\_offset": 25
}
]
},
"twitter":{
"term\_freq": 1,
"tokens": [
{
"position": 0,
"start\_offset": 0,
"end\_offset": 6
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
What I want to do is to be able to get this functionality among all my index not a special document, and to be able to show this data in a Kibana visualization
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/word-count-frequency-per-field/159910/4 "2019-01-10T16:37:42Z")
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