diff --git a/notebook-widget/wizmap/wizmap.py b/notebook-widget/wizmap/wizmap.py
index 7126381..7949848 100644
--- a/notebook-widget/wizmap/wizmap.py
+++ b/notebook-widget/wizmap/wizmap.py
@@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ def generate_topic_dict(
     svg_width=1000,
     svg_height=1000,
     ideal_tile_width=35,
+    stop_words: list[str] = "english",
 ):
     """Generate a topic dictionary object that encodes the topics of different
     regions in the embedding map across scales.
@@ -530,6 +531,7 @@ def generate_topic_dict(
         max_zoom_scale (float): The maximal zoom scale (default to zoom x 30)
         svg_width (float): The approximate size of the wizmap window
         svg_height (float): The approximate size of the wizmap window
+        stop_words (list[str]): Stop words for the count vectorizer
 
     Returns:
         dict: A dictionary object encodes the contour plot.
@@ -552,7 +554,7 @@ def generate_topic_dict(
     # Build the count matrix
     root = tree.get_node_representation()
 
-    cv = CountVectorizer(stop_words="english", ngram_range=(1, 1))
+    cv = CountVectorizer(stop_words=stop_words, ngram_range=(1, 1))
     count_mat = cv.fit_transform(texts)
     ngrams = cv.get_feature_names_out()
 
@@ -623,6 +625,7 @@ def generate_grid_dict(
     image_label=None,
     image_url_prefix=None,
     opacity=None,
+    stop_words: list[str] = "english",
 ):
     """Generate a grid dictionary object that encodes the contour plot and the
     associated topics of different regions on the projected embedding space.
@@ -651,6 +654,7 @@ def generate_grid_dict(
         image_url_prefix (str): The url prefix for all image texts
         opacity (float): The opacity of data points. If it is None, WizMap will
             dynamically adjust the opacity values. Defaults to None.
+        stop_words (list[str]): A set of stop words to filter out when generating topics
 
     Returns:
         dict: A dictionary object encodes the grid data.
@@ -677,6 +681,7 @@ def generate_grid_dict(
         svg_width=svg_width,
         svg_height=svg_height,
         ideal_tile_width=ideal_tile_width,
+        stop_words=stop_words,
     )
 
     # Add meta data to the final output