# No search results are shown for stopwords

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**Created:** [2016年六月28日 02:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-search-results-are-shown-for-stopwords/46541 "2016-06-28T02:19:43Z")\
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Those are “stop” words

> **[12.6. Dictionaries](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/textsearch-dictionaries.html)**
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> 12.6. Dictionaries # 12.6.1. Stop Words 12.6.2. Simple Dictionary 12.6.3. Synonym Dictionary 12.6.4. Thesaurus Dictionary 12.6.5. Ispell Dictionary 12.6.6. Snowball Dictionary …

> Stop words are words that are very common, appear in almost every document, and have no discrimination value. Therefore, they can be ignored in the context of full text searching. For example, every English text contains words like a and the, so it is useless to store them in an index. However, stop words do affect the positions in tsvector, which in turn affect ranking:

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