diff --git a/admin-home.pl b/admin-home.pl
index 30b1dec4ef..e46409c7f9 100755
--- a/admin-home.pl
+++ b/admin-home.pl
@@ -17,5 +17,10 @@ my ($template, $loggedinuser, $cookie)
 			     flagsrequired => {parameters => 1, management => 1, tools => 1},
 			     debug => 1,
 			     });
+my $dbh = C4::Context->dbh;
+my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select count(*) from stopwords");
+$sth->execute;
+my ($total) = $sth->fetchrow;
+$template->param(stopwords => $total);
 
 output_html_with_http_headers $query, $cookie, $template->output;
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/parameters/admin-home.tmpl b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/parameters/admin-home.tmpl
index e4d23e4c5c..4fe0a234bc 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/parameters/admin-home.tmpl
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/parameters/admin-home.tmpl
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
 	<TMPL_IF name="CAN_user_management">
 		<tr>
 			<td valign="top" width="25%"><a href="/cgi-bin/koha/admin/stopwords.pl">Stop words</a></td>
-			<td>Words deleted during searches.</td>
+			<td>Words deleted during searches.
+				<!-- TMPL_UNLESS name="stopwords" --><p class="problem">WARNING : you should define stop words</p><!-- /TMPL_UNLESS --></td>
 		</tr>
 	</TMPL_IF>