List of Stopwords

Stopwords are common, frequently used words such as articles (a, an, the), prepositions (of, in, for, through), and pronouns (it, their, his) that cannot be searched as individual words in the Topic and Title fields. If you include a stopword in a phrase, the stopword is interpreted as a word placeholder.

Alphabetical List of Stopwords

A

A

ABOUT

ABOVE

ACCORDING

ACROSS

ACTUAL

ADDED

AFTER

AGAINST

AHEAD

ALL

ALMOST

ALONE

ALONG

ALSO

AMONG

AMONGST

AN

AND

AND-OR

AND/OR

ANON

ANOTHER

ANY

ARE

ARISING

AROUND

AS

AT

AWARD

AWAY

B

BE

BECAUSE

BECOME

BECOMES

BEEN

BEFORE

BEHIND

BEING

BELOW

BEST

BETTER

BETWEEN

BEYOND

BIRTHDAY

BOTH

BUT

BY

C

CAN

CERTAIN

COME

COMES

COMING

COMPLETELY

CONCERNING

CONSIDER

CONSIDERED

CONSIDERING

CONSISTING

D

DE

DEPARTMENT

DER

DESPITE

DISCUSSION

DO

DOES

DOESN’T

DOING

DOWN

DR

DU

DUE

DURING

E

EACH

EITHER

ESPECIALLY

ET

F

FEW

FOR

FORWARD

FROM

FURTHER

G

GET

GIVE

GIVEN

GIVING

H

HAS

HAVE

HAVING

HIS

HONOR

HOW

I

IN

INSIDE

INSTEAD

INTO

IS

IT

ITEMS

ITS

J

JUST

L

LET

LETS

LITTLE

LOOK

LOOKS

M

MADE

MAKE

MAKES

MAKING

MANY

MEET

MEETS

MORE

MOST

MUCH

MUST

MY

N

NEAR

NEARLY

NEXT

NOT

NOW

O

OF

OFF

ON

ONLY

ONTO

OR

OTHER

OUR

OUT

OUTSIDE

OVER

OVERALL

P

PER

POSSIBLY

PT

PUT

R

REALLY

REGARDING

REPRINTED

S

SAME

SEEN

SEVERAL

SHOULD

SHOWN

SINCE

SO-CALLED

SOME

SPP

STUDIES

STUDY

SUCH

T

TAKE

TAKEN

TAKES

TAKING

THAN

THAT

THE

THEIR

THEM

THEN

THERE

THEREFROM

THESE

THEY

THIS

THOSE

THROUGH

THROUGHOUT

TO

TOGETHER

TOWARD

TOWARDS

U

UNDER

UNDERGOING

UP

UPON

UPWARD

V

VARIOUS

VERSUS

VERY

VIA

VOL

VOLS

VS

W

WAS

WAY

WAYS

WE

WERE

WHAT

WHATS

WHEN

WHERE

WHICH

WHILE

WHITHER

WHO

WHOM

WHO’S

WHOSE

WHY

WITH

WITHIN

WITHOUT

Y

YET

YOU

YOUR