diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 638be689cb..bfd71600d4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -19387,3 +19387,24 @@ (define-public r-isocodes
 codes, ISO 4217 currency codes, ISO 15924 script codes, and the ISO 8859
 character codes as well as the UN M.49 area codes.")
     (license license:gpl2)))
+
+(define-public r-stopwords
+  (package
+    (name "r-stopwords")
+    (version "1.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (cran-uri "stopwords" version))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "1nmi0bpd0c238g5b8ch1v034m5ng9llhs519cgxdrj3sh9fplwlv"))))
+    (properties `((upstream-name . "stopwords")))
+    (build-system r-build-system)
+    (propagated-inputs `(("r-isocodes" ,r-isocodes)))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/quanteda/stopwords")
+    (synopsis "Multilingual stopword lists")
+    (description
+     "This package provides multiple sources of stopwords, for use in text
+analysis and natural language processing.")
+    (license license:expat)))