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title: "Stopwords"
manual: "ke_search"
version: "7.3"
source: "Behaviour/Stopwords.rst"
rendered: "2026-10-09T09:40:57+00:00"
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# Stopwords {#stopwords}

When using the extension with MySQL, some database servers may use the default MySQL MyISAM stopword list
(see [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-stopwords.html)). This may lead to unexpected search results
(e.g. search for german *brief* may return zero results), since *brief* is a default stopword.

It is therefore recommended to either disable the feature if possible by setting

```none
ft_stopword_file = ""
```