---
title: "Look up a single term"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/style-guide/{termId}"
tags: ["Style Guide"]
---

# Look up a single term

`GET /api/v1/style-guide/{termId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://glossary.ethereum.org`
- URL: `https://glossary.ethereum.org/api/v1/style-guide/{termId}`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/ethereum/apis/ethglossary-api/docs/api/v1/style-guide/:termId/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Intelligent matching: resolves aliases, avoid forms, and morphological variants.

## Path parameters

- `termId` string, required: Term ID, alias, or variant (intelligent matching)

## Response `200`

The style guide entry

- StyleGuideTerm
  - `id` string, required
  - `term` string, required
  - `category` string, required
  - `termRole` 'concept' | 'brand-or-project' | 'person-name' | 'programming-language' | 'os-platform' | 'cryptographic-primitive' | 'network-name' | 'file-extension' | 'cli-command' | 'ticker-or-standard' | 'identifier': v1 policy term role (informs default script_rule). Optional; see docs/translation-policy.md section 4.
  - `casing` 'standard' | 'proper' | 'uppercase' | 'fixed', required
  - `definition` string, required
  - `references` object[]: Further reading for this term. Present only when the term has any; `definition` never contains markup links.
    - `label` string, required
    - `url` string, required
  - `avoid` string[]
  - `aliases` object[]
    - `term` string, required
    - `status` 'preferred' | 'accepted', required
    - `note` string
  - `note` string
  - `scriptRule` string, required
  - `hasTooltip` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `404`: Term not found

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