# Recommendation for using stop words **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-for-using-stop-words/18993 "2014-07-30T23:35:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sulemanmubarik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sulemanmubarik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sulemanmubarik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-for-using-stop-words/18993/1 "2014-07-30T23:35:05Z")
Hi What are good recommendation to use the stop words. Using the default stop words provided by elastic search is good Or should I use some custom stop words too More than 60% data is from twitter. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-for-using-stop-words/18993/2 "2014-07-31T17:08:01Z")
Tuning stop words can be as long of a process as you want it to be. Saving your queries/results and doing some search analytics can help you fine tune the stop words. In general, the default stop words list is very good for English, but Twitterspeak is not really English. 🙂 You can look at all the terms in your inverted index ( [GitHub - jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist: Elasticsearch Index Termlist](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist)) to see what the top words are and see if they are relevant. Have you looked at the common words query? > **[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale](https://www.elastic.co)** > > Power insights and outcomes with the Elasticsearch Platform and AI. See into your data and find answers that matter with enterprise solutions designed to help you build, observe, and protect. Try Elasticsearch free today. Cheers, Ivan On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:35 PM, sulemanmubarik [sulemanmubarik@gmail.com](mailto:sulemanmubarik@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi > What are good recommendation to use the stop words. > Using the default stop words provided by Elasticsearch is good > Or should I use some custom stop words too > More than 60% data is from twitter. > Thanks > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Recommendation-for-using-stop-words-tp4060924.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Recommendation-for-using-stop-words-tp4060924.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1406763306312-4060924.post%40n3.nabble.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1406763306312-4060924.post%40n3.nabble.com) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDhFfibwP1pbG52AKaNfx%3DtHcqW-KZJ7rV42ugwFbe\_Mg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDhFfibwP1pbG52AKaNfx%3DtHcqW-KZJ7rV42ugwFbe_Mg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-for-using-stop-words/18993/3 "2017-07-06T01:11:57Z")