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Help Stop-Word List

A stop-word list omits commonly occurring words or numbers from a full-text search, thus increasing the speed of the search. Use the following guidelines when creating your stop list.

  • A stop-word list can have only one word per line with no leading or trailing spaces. Any character after the first word on a line is ignored.

  • Apostrophe characters (') are stripped out, and letters before and after are concatenated. For example, "it's" is equivalent to "its".

  • The underscore (_) and pound sign (#) characters are treated as normal characters. For example, "_open" will stop only "_open", but not "open".

  • Extended chars (ASCII range 128-255) are normalized. For example, "ä" is treated as "a".

  • Hyphen (-), semicolon (;), and colon(:) characters are not allowed. These characters have the effect of breaking words, which is equivalent to two words on the same line.

Stop-Word List Template

You can use the following stop-word list as a template by copying the stop words into a text (.txt) file and then adding it to your project.

a - f

g - o

p - z

a

had

other

about

has

over

after

have

several

against

he

she

all

her

some

also

his

such

although

however

than

among

in

that

an

include

the

and

including

their

are

into

then

as

is

there

at

it

these

be

its

they

became

late

this

because

later

through

been

me

to

between

made

under

but

many

until

by

may

use

can

more

was

come

most

we

do

near

were

during

no

when

each

non

where

early

not

which

for

of

who

form

on

with

found

only

you

from

or

Note

Words greater than 1,023 characters are automatically excluded from the full-text search index.

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