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---
navigation_title: "Stop"
mapped_pages:
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stop-analyzer.html
---
# Stop analyzer [analysis-stop-analyzer]
The `stop` analyzer is the same as the [`simple` analyzer](/reference/text-analysis/analysis-simple-analyzer.md) but adds support for removing stop words. It defaults to using the `_english_` stop words.
## Example output [_example_output_5]
```console
POST _analyze
{
"analyzer": "stop",
"text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
```
The above sentence would produce the following terms:
```text
[ quick, brown, foxes, jumped, over, lazy, dog, s, bone ]
```
## Configuration [_configuration_6]
The `stop` analyzer accepts the following parameters:
`stopwords`
: A pre-defined stop words list like `_english_` or an array containing a list of stop words. Defaults to `_english_`.
`stopwords_path`
: The path to a file containing stop words. This path is relative to the Elasticsearch `config` directory.
See the [Stop Token Filter](/reference/text-analysis/analysis-stop-tokenfilter.md) for more information about stop word configuration.
## Example configuration [_example_configuration_5]
In this example, we configure the `stop` analyzer to use a specified list of words as stop words:
```console
PUT my-index-000001
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"my_stop_analyzer": {
"type": "stop",
"stopwords": ["the", "over"]
}
}
}
}
}
POST my-index-000001/_analyze
{
"analyzer": "my_stop_analyzer",
"text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
```
The above example produces the following terms:
```text
[ quick, brown, foxes, jumped, lazy, dog, s, bone ]
```
## Definition [_definition_5]
It consists of:
Tokenizer
: * [Lower Case Tokenizer](/reference/text-analysis/analysis-lowercase-tokenizer.md)
Token filters
: * [Stop Token Filter](/reference/text-analysis/analysis-stop-tokenfilter.md)
If you need to customize the `stop` analyzer beyond the configuration parameters then you need to recreate it as a `custom` analyzer and modify it, usually by adding token filters. This would recreate the built-in `stop` analyzer and you can use it as a starting point for further customization:
```console
PUT /stop_example
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"english_stop": {
"type": "stop",
"stopwords": "_english_" <1>
}
},
"analyzer": {
"rebuilt_stop": {
"tokenizer": "lowercase",
"filter": [
"english_stop" <2>
]
}
}
}
}
}
```
1. The default stopwords can be overridden with the `stopwords` or `stopwords_path` parameters.
2. Youd add any token filters after `english_stop`.