# Using Regex with Watched Words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-regex-with-watched-words/241861
**Category:** Site Management
**Tags:** reference, regex, watched-words, content
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-regex-with-watched-words/241861 "2022-10-13T19:01:36Z")
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### Author: ![Burhan\_Qaddoumi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/burhan_qaddoumi/32/424472_2.png) [@Burhan\_Qaddoumi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Burhan_Qaddoumi)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-regex-with-watched-words/241861/2 "2024-06-14T18:03:17Z")

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Forgive my noobness, but I ~~was not able to find the site setting for `watched words regular expressions` anywhere. I also looked for `regex`, `regular expression`, and other variants, but didn’t find anything that looked like it would enable regex for watched words. Do you have the slug to the site settings where this could be enabled (cloud hosted instance)?~~

**EDIT** the answer was just above and found [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-settings-on-discourse-hosted-sites/310574)

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