--- title: Default Wordlists description: A wordlist can contain articles, conjunctions, prepositions, or other terms that limit matches in a search. pubDate: 2026-08-17T09:53:44.266Z antora: editUrl: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/docs-devex/edit/release/7.2/modules/search/pages/default-wordlists-reference.adoc xref: xref:7.2@server:search:default-wordlists-reference.adoc[] --- [Consult the llms.txt file for a full list of contents](/llms.txt) [View original HTML](/server/7.2/search/default-wordlists-reference.html) # Default Wordlists > A wordlist can contain articles, conjunctions, prepositions, or other terms that limit matches in a search. Use wordlists with [token filters](customize-index.md#token-filters) to choose what input from a [tokenizer](customize-index.md#tokenizers) becomes a token. The following default wordlists are available when you create a [custom token filter](create-custom-token-filter.md): | Wordlist | Description | | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | articles\_ca | Contains a list of articles in Catalan. | | articles\_fr | Contains a list of articles in French. | | articles\_ga | Contains a list of articles in Gaelic. | | articles\_it | Contains a list of articles in Italian. | | stop\_ar | Contains a list of Arabic words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_bg | Contains a list of Bulgarian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_ca | Contains a list of Catalan words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_ckb | Contains a list of Kurdish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_cs | Contains a list of Czech words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_da | Contains a list of Danish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_de | Contains a list of German words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_el | Contains a list of Greek words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_en | Contains a list of English words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_es | Contains a list of Castilian Spanish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_eu | Contains a list of Basque words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_fa | Contains a list of Persian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_fi | Contains a list of Finnish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_fr | Contains a list of French words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_ga | Contains a list of Gaelic words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_gl | Contains a list of Galician Spanish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_he | Contains a list of Hebrew words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_hi | Contains a list of Hindi words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_hr | Contains a list of Croatian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_hu | Contains a list of Hungarian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_hy | Contains a list of Armenian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_id | Contains a list of Indonesian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_it | Contains a list of Italian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_nl | Contains a list of Dutch words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_no | Contains a list of Norwegian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_pt | Contains a list of Portuguese words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_ro | Contains a list of Romanian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_ru | Contains a list of Russian words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_sv | Contains a list of Swedish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. | | stop\_tr | Contains a list of Turkish words that are unnecessary for a search, such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. |