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 wordsGerman function wordsDutch function wordsFrench function wordsSpanish function wordsItalian function wordsPortuguese function wordsRussian function wordsPolish function wordsSwedish function wordsIndonesian function wordsArabic function wordsFarsi function wordsHebrew function words Hungarian function wordsNorwegian function wordsTurkish function words
Read more about the function word check in Yoast SEO.