What are stop words - stop words are commonly used words like a, an, the etc which often occur in sentences. In linguistics, if you want to take a sample to understand it better, it is often recommended to remove the stop words out of it as for a big corpses (sample of words and sentences) these stop words constitute a major chunk of it and often affect the result of conclusion.

Search engines also often skip these stop words while creating their index as well as its advisable to not use them in url of sites.

List of Stop words

I, a, about, an, are, as, at, be, by, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, was, what, when, where, who, will, with, the

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