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Stop words like - and, this, is, the, etc. have the highest values in a corpus. But these words do not talk about the corpus at all. Hence, these are termed stopwords and are mostly removed at the pre-processing stage only.
Rare or valuable words occur the least but add the most important to the corpus. Hence, when we look at the text, we take frequent and rare words into consideration.
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