The Stopwords function strips specified words from a string variable before it's compared, so values that mean the same thing but differ in wording — like legal suffixes — can still match.
Set up the function
In the rule builder, select Function, then choose Stopwords for the string variable you want to evaluate.
Select the variable to screen — the field whose value will have stopwords stripped before comparison.
Add your stopwords:
Type individual words directly, or
Select one or more existing lists. Every item in a selected list is treated as a stopword.
Choose an operator, for example
similar tofor fuzzy matching or=for an exact match. The operators available depend on whether you're comparing against words or a list.Choose the value to screen against — words or a list, depending on the operator you selected.
Set the fuzziness threshold to control how closely the stripped values need to match.
Example
Configure Limited Liability Company and LLC as stopwords, and "Apple Limited Liability Company" and "Apple LLC" are compared as "Apple" against "Apple." They'll now match at a lower fuzziness percentage than before, since the differing legal suffixes are stripped out before the comparison runs.