# Synonyms for Form Entities
**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/synonyms-for-form-entities/22653
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/synonyms-for-form-entities/22653 "2019-12-19T16:23:26Z")
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### Author:  [@ttlekich](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ttlekich)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/synonyms-for-form-entities/22653/1 "2019-12-19T16:23:26Z")
I am diving into the forms/slot filling feature of rasa, and I am wondering how one can use synonyms within the filled slots.
In the rasa form example, “cuisine” is a slot entity (maybe I shouldn’t call this an entity? I am not sure):
```
cuisine:
type: unfeaturized
auto_fill: false
```
However, the inputs by the user are checked in the form action to a list of values:
```
@staticmethod
def cuisine_db() -> List[Text]:
"""Database of supported cuisines"""
return [
"caribbean",
"chinese",
"french",
"greek",
"indian",
"italian",
"mexican",
]
```
Is there a way that we can specify synonyms for the allowed values, and those synonyms would be mapped back to the accepted value. For example, if a user said “france” instead of “french”, the rasa form example as is would not allow “france” as a value. I am wondering if we can use the synonym feature to map france to french for this slot filling example. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@fuih](https://forum.rasa.com/u/fuih)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/synonyms-for-form-entities/22653/2 "2019-12-20T01:58:37Z")
Hello @ttlekich,
Rasa offers a function of defining synonyms to your entity. Any synonym detected will be assign the specified value. Something like this:
```
# intent:cuisine
- get me some [france](cuisine:french)'s restaurants
```
In this case, if the bot detected “france”, it will assign “french” to the slot cuisine.
Read more about synonyms here: [Training Data Format](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/nlu/training-data-format/#entity-synonyms)