Irregular Words
Irregular words are words that do not follow the normal grammatical rules for conjugation. A common case in English is nouns whose plural form does not end in s
or es
(e.g. woman, women).
Irregular words need to be added because the search engine can't use the normal rules for stemming of the language, to make different forms of a word equal to each other.
Irregular words are created as a part of an irregular word dictionary.
Example
For English, the way of stemming words in plural form is to remove s
and es
endings, e.g. making trains
and train
equal to each other. This does however not work for woman
and women
, so an irregular word will have to be registered in Ecommerce Search with those two terms.