way to see the analyzer used and applied on the index is by setting the setting of an index GET /khanscript2/_settings { "khanscript2": { "settings": { "index": { "number_of_shards": "5", "provided_name": "khanscript2", "creation_date": "1544413347896", "analysis": { "filter": { "english_stop": { "type": "stop", "stopwords": "_english_" }, "light_english_stemmer": { "type": "stemmer", "language": "light_english" }, "english_possessive_stemmer": { "type": "stemmer", "language": "possessive_english" }