stop list
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
noun
A list of people who subscribed to a publication (e.g. newspaper) but no longer wish to receive it.
noun
A list of the stops found on a particular organ.
Example Sentences
- "If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as "a", "the", and "and", you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%."
- "The history of the small organ is poorly documented; the earliest known stop list, written by the Lübeck organ builder Theodore Vogt, dates from about 1845."