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Stop-Words In Spacy
What Are Stop Words?
a, an, the, in, on, is, was, are, am, be, by, of, with, and, but, or, not, so, too.
Example
import spacy
from spacy.lang.en.stop_words import STOP_WORDS
# Convert set → sorted list
stop_words_list = sorted(list(STOP_WORDS))
# Print top 10 stop words
print(stop_words_list[:10])
Output
How To Add And Remove The Stop Word From The Spacy Stop Word List?
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
print("Before adding apple in stop words:", nlp.vocab["apple"].is_stop);
nlp.Defaults.stop_words.add("apple")
nlp.vocab["apple"].is_stop = True
print("After adding apple in stop words:", nlp.vocab["apple"].is_stop);
nlp.Defaults.stop_words.remove("apple")
nlp.vocab["apple"].is_stop = False
print("After removing apple in stop words:", nlp.vocab["apple"].is_stop);
Output
| Posted By - | Karan Gupta |
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| Posted On - | Tuesday, November 25, 2025 |