: In any case, technically, the stop filter is doing exactly what it is supposed : to do.
Jack has kind of glossed over some key questions here... 1) why are you using StopFilterFactory in your "multiterm" analyzer like this? 2) what do you expect it to do if "series" is in your stopwords and someone queries for "series*" : <fieldType name="search_string" class="solr.TextField" : positionIncrementGap="100"> : <analyzer type="query"> : <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> : <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" : ignoreCase="true"/> : </analyzer> : <analyzer type="multiterm"> : <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory" /> : <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" : ignoreCase="true"/> : </analyzer> : </fieldType> -Hoss