sys-fulltext-stopwords-transact-sql.md

title	sys.fulltext_stopwords (Transact-SQL)
description	sys.fulltext_stopwords contains a row per stopword for all stoplists in the database.
author	rwestMSFT
ms.author	randolphwest
ms.date	07/09/2026
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	system-objects
ms.topic	reference
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helpviewer_keywords	sys.fulltext_stopwords catalog view stoplists [full-text search] full-text search [SQL Server], stopwords stopwords [full-text search]
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sys.fulltext_stopwords (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance FabricSQLDB]

Contains a row per stopword for all stoplists in the database.

Column name	Data type	Description
stoplist_id	int	ID of the stoplist to which stopword belongs. This ID is unique within the database.
stopword	nvarchar(64)	The term to be considered for a stop-word match.
language	sysname	Either the value of the alias in sys.fulltext_languages corresponding to the value of the locale identifier (LCID), or the string representation of the numeric LCID.
language_id	int	LCID used for word breaking.

Permissions

[!INCLUDE ssCatViewPerm]

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