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Stop Word Remover

Paste a text and the tool strips the stop words (articles, prepositions, pronouns…) and keeps the meaningful words, in four languages.

Text to clean

Stop-word language

Extra words to remove (optional)

Separate with commas or spaces.

Words to keep (optional)

For example your target keyword, if it is also a stop word.

Stop-word list used (140 words)

a, about, above, after, again, against, all, also, am, an, and, any, are, aren't, as, at, be, because, been, before, being, below, between, both, but, by, can, can't, cannot, could, d, did, do, does, doing, don, don't, down, during, each, few, for, from, further, had, has, have, having, he, her, here, hers, herself, him, himself, his, how, i, if, in, into, is, isn't, it, its, itself, just, ll, m, me, more, most, my, myself, no, nor, not, of, off, on, once, only, or, other, our, ours, ourselves, out, over, own, re, s, same, she, should, so, some, such, t, than, that, the, their, theirs, them, themselves, then, there, these, they, this, those, through, to, too, under, until, up, ve, very, was, we, were, what, when, where, which, while, who, whom, why, will, with, won't, would, you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves

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Privacy and cost

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How it works

Paste your text and leave the language on auto-detect, or pick it.
Optionally add extra words to remove, or words to protect such as your keyword.
Copy the trimmed text and check the counter of removed words.

Example

"The best way to learn SEO is to practice on a real website and to measure the results." has 18 words, of which 9 stop words are removed. Result: "best way learn SEO practice real website measure results."

What the result means

Stop words are very frequent and carry little meaning, so removing them helps you see the terms that matter before a keyword analysis. The lists are intentionally short and common; they are not a linguistic dictionary. The output is for analysis, not for publishing: it is not grammatical.

Common problems this tool helps with

Word-frequency tables dominated by "the", "of" and "and".
Keyword lists prepared by hand from a paragraph.
Slugs and labels that are too long because of connecting words.
Multilingual texts where each language has its own stop words.

Frequently asked questions

Does Google ignore stop words?

Do not strip them from your real content. They are part of natural language and search engines understand full sentences much better. This tool is for analysis, not for rewriting your pages.

Which languages are supported?

English, French, Spanish and Arabic, with short lists. For Arabic, short-vowel marks (tashkeel) are ignored when matching.

How are French apostrophes handled?

Elisions such as "l'audit" or "d'un" are split: the article is removed and the meaningful word is kept.

Does my text leave my browser?

No, processing is entirely local.