Stop words are the extremely common function words — "the," "is," "and," "of" — that carry grammatical structure but little topical meaning on their own. Removing them is a standard preprocessing step in text analysis and keyword extraction.
This tool filters out a comprehensive list of common English stop words from your pasted text, leaving behind mainly the content words that carry the actual meaning and topic focus.
It's useful for preparing text for keyword analysis, generating a cleaner input for a word cloud or frequency count, or simply seeing which words in a passage carry the real informational weight.
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Frequently asked questions
Will removing stop words make the text readable as a sentence?
No, the output is a list of remaining content words rather than a grammatical sentence — this is meant for analysis purposes, not as replacement prose.
Which words count as stop words?
A standard list of common English function words including articles, common prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs like "the," "a," "of," "and," "is," and similar high-frequency grammatical words.