List of function words

What are function words?

We make a difference between function words and content words in the Yoast SEO keyphrase analysis and prominent words analysis. Function words mainly express grammatical relationships between content words. They don’t have much intrinsic meaning on their own. That’s why we filter them in our analysis for a growing number of languages.

What words are counted as function words?

Below you find all languages for which we have support for filtering function words. Please select the language link below to view the plugin files containing the function words for the specific language.

• English function words
• German function words
• Dutch function words
• French function words
• Spanish function words
• Italian function words
• Portuguese function words
• Russian function words
• Polish function words
• Swedish function words
• Indonesian function words
• Arabic function words
• Farsi function words
• Hebrew function words
• Hungarian function words
• Norwegian function words
• Turkish function words

Read more about the function word check in Yoast SEO.

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