---
title: "List all synonym sets"
method: GET
path: "/synonym_sets"
tags: ["synonyms"]
---

# List all synonym sets

`GET /synonym_sets`

Retrieve all synonym sets

## Response `200`

List of all synonym sets

- SynonymSetSchema[]
  - `items` SynonymItemSchema[], required — Array of synonym items
    - `id` string, required — Unique identifier for the synonym item
    - `synonyms` string[], required — Array of words that should be considered as synonyms
    - `root` string — For 1-way synonyms, indicates the root word that words in the synonyms parameter map to
    - `locale` string — Locale for the synonym, leave blank to use the standard tokenizer
    - `symbols_to_index` string[] — By default, special characters are dropped from synonyms. Use this attribute to specify which special characters should be indexed as is
  - `name` string, required — Name of the synonym set

## Changes

> 9 revisions in range; 1 could not be searched.

- **2025-12-09** `4a6b0689c91a` — 3 breaking, 3 warning, 1 info
  - the `items/allOf[#/components/schemas/SynonymSetCreateSchema]/items/items/` response's property type/format changed from `object`/`` to ``/`` for status `200`
  - removed the required property `items/allOf[#/components/schemas/SynonymSetCreateSchema]/items/items/id` from the response with the `200` status
  - removed the required property `items/allOf[#/components/schemas/SynonymSetCreateSchema]/items/items/synonyms` from the response with the `200` status
  - removed the optional property `items/allOf[#/components/schemas/SynonymSetCreateSchema]/items/items/locale` from the response with the `200` status
  - …3 more
- **2025-10-14** `3bc6fc9b6132` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2022-08-04** `6c2fe01b69bc` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/typesense/apis/typesense-api/changes/synonym_sets/get.md)

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