diff --git a/lib/classifier.rb b/lib/classifier.rb
index 369dc646..26a5488b 100644
--- a/lib/classifier.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier.rb
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@
 require 'classifier/knn'
 require 'classifier/tfidf'
 require 'classifier/logistic_regression'
+require 'classifier/config'
diff --git a/lib/classifier/bayes.rb b/lib/classifier/bayes.rb
index 394880c4..09a9a628 100644
--- a/lib/classifier/bayes.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier/bayes.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Bayes # rubocop:disable Metrics/ClassLength
     # @rbs @cached_vocab_size: Integer?
     # @rbs @dirty: bool
     # @rbs @storage: Storage::Base?
+    # @rbs @min_word_length: Integer
 
     attr_accessor :storage
 
@@ -27,8 +28,9 @@ class Bayes # rubocop:disable Metrics/ClassLength
     # initialized and given a training method. E.g.,
     #      b = Classifier::Bayes.new 'Interesting', 'Uninteresting', 'Spam'
     #      b = Classifier::Bayes.new ['Interesting', 'Uninteresting', 'Spam']
-    # @rbs (*String | Symbol | Array[String | Symbol]) -> void
-    def initialize(*categories)
+    #      b = Classifier::Bayes.new 'Spam', min_word_length: 1
+    # @rbs (*String | Symbol | Array[String | Symbol], ?min_word_length: Integer) -> void
+    def initialize(*categories, min_word_length: Classifier.config.min_word_length)
       super()
       @categories = {}
       categories.flatten.each { |category| @categories[category.prepare_category_name] = {} }
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ def initialize(*categories)
       @cached_vocab_size = nil
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
+      @min_word_length = min_word_length
     end
 
     # Trains the classifier with text for a category.
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ def untrain(category = nil, text = nil, **categories)
     #
     # @rbs (String) -> Hash[String, Float]
     def classifications(text)
-      words = text.word_hash.keys
+      words = text.word_hash(@min_word_length).keys
       synchronize do
         training_count = cached_training_count
         vocab_size = cached_vocab_size
@@ -117,7 +120,8 @@ def as_json(_options = nil)
         categories: @categories.transform_keys(&:to_s).transform_values { |v| v.transform_keys(&:to_s) },
         total_words: @total_words,
         category_counts: @category_counts.transform_keys(&:to_s),
-        category_word_count: @category_word_count.transform_keys(&:to_s)
+        category_word_count: @category_word_count.transform_keys(&:to_s),
+        min_word_length: @min_word_length
       }
     end
 
@@ -409,7 +413,7 @@ def train_batch_internal(category, batch)
         invalidate_caches
         @dirty = true
         batch.each do |text|
-          word_hash = text.word_hash
+          word_hash = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
           @category_counts[category] += 1
           word_hash.each do |word, count|
             @categories[category][word] ||= 0
@@ -425,7 +429,7 @@ def train_batch_internal(category, batch)
     # @rbs (String | Symbol, String) -> void
     def train_single(category, text)
       category = category.prepare_category_name
-      word_hash = text.word_hash
+      word_hash = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
       synchronize do
         invalidate_caches
         @dirty = true
@@ -443,7 +447,7 @@ def train_single(category, text)
     # @rbs (String | Symbol, String) -> void
     def untrain_single(category, text)
       category = category.prepare_category_name
-      word_hash = text.word_hash
+      word_hash = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
       synchronize do
         invalidate_caches
         @dirty = true
@@ -487,6 +491,7 @@ def restore_state(data)
       @cached_vocab_size = nil
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
+      @min_word_length = data['min_word_length'] || Classifier.config.min_word_length
 
       data['categories'].each do |cat_name, words|
         @categories[cat_name.to_sym] = words.transform_keys(&:to_sym)
diff --git a/lib/classifier/config.rb b/lib/classifier/config.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9cb070bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/classifier/config.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# rbs_inline: enabled
+
+module Classifier
+  # @rbs @config: Config?
+
+  # This lazy initialization is not thread-safe.
+  # In multi-threaded environments, ensure this method is called
+  # or configuration is set explicitly during startup before using classifiers.
+  # @rbs () -> Config
+  def config
+    @config ||= Config.new
+  end
+
+  # @rbs () { (Config) -> void } -> void
+  def configure(&block)
+    block&.call(config)
+  end
+
+  module_function :config, :configure
+
+  class Config
+    # @rbs @min_word_length: Integer
+
+    attr_accessor :min_word_length #: Integer
+
+    # @rbs () -> void
+    def initialize
+      @min_word_length = 3
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/classifier/extensions/word_hash.rb b/lib/classifier/extensions/word_hash.rb
index b6462da2..c51a8d8e 100644
--- a/lib/classifier/extensions/word_hash.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier/extensions/word_hash.rb
@@ -20,27 +20,27 @@ def without_punctuation
 
   # Return a Hash of strings => ints. Each word in the string is stemmed,
   # interned, and indexes to its frequency in the document.
-  # @rbs () -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
-  def word_hash
-    word_hash = clean_word_hash
+  # @rbs (?Integer) -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
+  def word_hash(min_word_length = 3)
+    word_hash = clean_word_hash(min_word_length)
     symbol_hash = word_hash_for_symbols(gsub(/\w/, ' ').split)
     word_hash.merge(symbol_hash)
   end
 
   # Return a word hash without extra punctuation or short symbols, just stemmed words
-  # @rbs () -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
-  def clean_word_hash
-    word_hash_for_words gsub(/[^\w\s]/, '').split
+  # @rbs (?Integer) -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
+  def clean_word_hash(min_word_length = 3)
+    word_hash_for_words(gsub(/[^\w\s]/, '').split, min_word_length)
   end
 
   private
 
-  # @rbs (Array[String]) -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
-  def word_hash_for_words(words)
+  # @rbs (Array[String], Integer) -> Hash[Symbol, Integer]
+  def word_hash_for_words(words, min_word_length)
     d = Hash.new(0)
     words.each do |word|
       word.downcase!
-      d[word.stem.intern] += 1 if !CORPUS_SKIP_WORDS.include?(word) && word.length > 2
+      d[word.stem.intern] += 1 if !CORPUS_SKIP_WORDS.include?(word) && word.length >= min_word_length
     end
     d
   end
diff --git a/lib/classifier/logistic_regression.rb b/lib/classifier/logistic_regression.rb
index a169f85e..72de3176 100644
--- a/lib/classifier/logistic_regression.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier/logistic_regression.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class LogisticRegression # rubocop:disable Metrics/ClassLength
     # @rbs @fitted: bool
     # @rbs @dirty: bool
     # @rbs @storage: Storage::Base?
+    # @rbs @min_word_length: Integer
 
     attr_accessor :storage
 
@@ -53,13 +54,16 @@ class LogisticRegression # rubocop:disable Metrics/ClassLength
     # - regularization: L2 regularization strength (default: 0.01)
     # - max_iterations: Maximum training iterations (default: 100)
     # - tolerance: Convergence threshold (default: 1e-4)
+    # - min_word_length: Minimum word length filter in tokenization
     #
     # @rbs (*String | Symbol | Array[String | Symbol], ?learning_rate: Float, ?regularization: Float,
-    #       ?max_iterations: Integer, ?tolerance: Float) -> void
+    #       ?max_iterations: Integer, ?tolerance: Float, ?min_word_length: Integer) -> void
+    # rubocop:disable Metrics/ParameterLists
     def initialize(*categories, learning_rate: DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE,
                    regularization: DEFAULT_REGULARIZATION,
                    max_iterations: DEFAULT_MAX_ITERATIONS,
-                   tolerance: DEFAULT_TOLERANCE)
+                   tolerance: DEFAULT_TOLERANCE,
+                   min_word_length: Classifier.config.min_word_length)
       super()
       categories = categories.flatten
       @categories = categories.map { |c| c.to_s.prepare_category_name }
@@ -74,7 +78,9 @@ def initialize(*categories, learning_rate: DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE,
       @fitted = false
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
+      @min_word_length = min_word_length
     end
+    # rubocop:enable Metrics/ParameterLists
 
     # Trains the classifier with text for a category.
     #
@@ -130,7 +136,7 @@ def classify(text)
     def probabilities(text)
       raise NotFittedError, 'Model not fitted. Call fit() after training.' unless @fitted
 
-      features = text.word_hash
+      features = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
       synchronize do
         softmax(compute_scores(features))
       end
@@ -143,7 +149,7 @@ def probabilities(text)
     def classifications(text)
       raise NotFittedError, 'Model not fitted. Call fit() after training.' unless @fitted
 
-      features = text.word_hash
+      features = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
       synchronize do
         compute_scores(features).transform_keys(&:to_s)
       end
@@ -239,7 +245,8 @@ def as_json(_options = nil)
         regularization: @regularization,
         max_iterations: @max_iterations,
         tolerance: @tolerance,
-        fitted: @fitted
+        fitted: @fitted,
+        min_word_length: @min_word_length
       }
     end
 
@@ -336,7 +343,7 @@ def reload!
     def marshal_dump
       fit unless @fitted
       [@categories, @weights, @bias, @vocabulary, @learning_rate, @regularization,
-       @max_iterations, @tolerance, @fitted]
+       @max_iterations, @tolerance, @fitted, @min_word_length]
     end
 
     # Custom marshal deserialization to recreate mutex.
@@ -345,7 +352,7 @@ def marshal_dump
     def marshal_load(data)
       mu_initialize
       @categories, @weights, @bias, @vocabulary, @learning_rate, @regularization,
-        @max_iterations, @tolerance, @fitted = data
+        @max_iterations, @tolerance, @fitted, @min_word_length = data
       @training_data = []
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
@@ -395,7 +402,7 @@ def train_from_stream(category, io, batch_size: Streaming::DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE)
       reader.each_batch do |batch|
         synchronize do
           batch.each do |text|
-            features = text.word_hash
+            features = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
             features.each_key { |word| @vocabulary[word] = true }
             @training_data << { category: category, features: features }
           end
@@ -444,7 +451,7 @@ def train_batch_for_category(category, documents, batch_size: Streaming::DEFAULT
       documents.each_slice(batch_size) do |batch|
         synchronize do
           batch.each do |text|
-            features = text.word_hash
+            features = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
             features.each_key { |word| @vocabulary[word] = true }
             @training_data << { category: category, features: features }
           end
@@ -463,7 +470,7 @@ def train_single(category, text)
       category = category.to_s.prepare_category_name
       raise StandardError, "No such category: #{category}" unless @categories.include?(category)
 
-      features = text.word_hash
+      features = text.word_hash(@min_word_length)
       synchronize do
         features.each_key { |word| @vocabulary[word] = true }
         @training_data << { category: category, features: features }
@@ -570,6 +577,7 @@ def restore_state(data, categories)
       @fitted = data.fetch('fitted', true)
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
+      @min_word_length = data['min_word_length'] || Classifier.config.min_word_length
     end
 
     def restore_weights_and_bias(data)
diff --git a/lib/classifier/lsi.rb b/lib/classifier/lsi.rb
index 6e1a6620..5c277150 100644
--- a/lib/classifier/lsi.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier/lsi.rb
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ class LSI
     # @rbs @u_matrix: Matrix?
     # @rbs @max_rank: Integer
     # @rbs @initial_vocab_size: Integer?
+    # @rbs @min_word_length: Integer
 
     attr_reader :word_list, :singular_values
     attr_accessor :auto_rebuild, :storage
@@ -110,6 +111,7 @@ def initialize(options = {})
       @max_rank = options[:max_rank] || DEFAULT_MAX_RANK
       @u_matrix = nil
       @initial_vocab_size = nil
+      @min_word_length = options[:min_word_length] || Classifier.config.min_word_length
     end
 
     # Returns true if the index needs to be rebuilt.  The index needs
@@ -216,7 +218,13 @@ def add(**items)
     #
     # @rbs (String, *String | Symbol) ?{ (String) -> String } -> void
     def add_item(item, *categories, &block)
-      clean_word_hash = block ? block.call(item).clean_word_hash : item.to_s.clean_word_hash
+      clean_word_hash =
+        if block
+          block.call(item).clean_word_hash(@min_word_length)
+        else
+          item.to_s.clean_word_hash(@min_word_length)
+        end
+
       node = nil
 
       synchronize do
@@ -480,14 +488,15 @@ def highest_ranked_stems(doc, count = 3)
     # Custom marshal serialization to exclude mutex state
     # @rbs () -> Array[untyped]
     def marshal_dump
-      [@auto_rebuild, @word_list, @items, @version, @built_at_version, @dirty]
+      [@auto_rebuild, @word_list, @items, @version, @built_at_version, @dirty, @min_word_length]
     end
 
     # Custom marshal deserialization to recreate mutex
     # @rbs (Array[untyped]) -> void
     def marshal_load(data)
       mu_initialize
-      @auto_rebuild, @word_list, @items, @version, @built_at_version, @dirty = data
+      @auto_rebuild, @word_list, @items, @version, @built_at_version, @dirty,
+        @min_word_length = data
       @storage = nil
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/classifier/tfidf.rb b/lib/classifier/tfidf.rb
index 56c52b15..20a65e11 100644
--- a/lib/classifier/tfidf.rb
+++ b/lib/classifier/tfidf.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ class TFIDF
     # @rbs @fitted: bool
     # @rbs @dirty: bool
     # @rbs @storage: Storage::Base?
+    # @rbs @min_word_length: Integer
 
     attr_reader :vocabulary, :idf, :num_documents
     attr_accessor :storage
@@ -36,10 +37,12 @@ class TFIDF
     # - min_df/max_df: filter terms by document frequency (Integer for count, Float for proportion)
     # - ngram_range: [1,1] for unigrams, [1,2] for unigrams+bigrams
     # - sublinear_tf: use 1 + log(tf) instead of raw term frequency
+    # - min_word_length: minimum word length filter in tokenization
     #
     # @rbs (?min_df: Integer | Float, ?max_df: Integer | Float,
-    #       ?ngram_range: Array[Integer], ?sublinear_tf: bool) -> void
-    def initialize(min_df: 1, max_df: 1.0, ngram_range: [1, 1], sublinear_tf: false)
+    #       ?ngram_range: Array[Integer], ?sublinear_tf: bool, ?min_word_length: Integer) -> void
+    def initialize(min_df: 1, max_df: 1.0, ngram_range: [1, 1], sublinear_tf: false,
+                   min_word_length: Classifier.config.min_word_length)
       validate_df!(min_df, 'min_df')
       validate_df!(max_df, 'max_df')
       validate_ngram_range!(ngram_range)
@@ -54,6 +57,7 @@ def initialize(min_df: 1, max_df: 1.0, ngram_range: [1, 1], sublinear_tf: false)
       @fitted = false
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
+      @min_word_length = min_word_length
     end
 
     # Learns vocabulary and IDF weights from the corpus.
@@ -204,7 +208,8 @@ def as_json(_options = nil)
         vocabulary: @vocabulary,
         idf: @idf,
         num_documents: @num_documents,
-        fitted: @fitted
+        fitted: @fitted,
+        min_word_length: @min_word_length
       }
     end
 
@@ -223,7 +228,8 @@ def self.from_json(json)
         min_df: data['min_df'],
         max_df: data['max_df'],
         ngram_range: data['ngram_range'],
-        sublinear_tf: data['sublinear_tf']
+        sublinear_tf: data['sublinear_tf'],
+        min_word_length: data['min_word_length'] || Classifier.config.min_word_length
       )
 
       instance.instance_variable_set(:@vocabulary, symbolize_keys(data['vocabulary']))
@@ -238,12 +244,14 @@ def self.from_json(json)
 
     # @rbs () -> Array[untyped]
     def marshal_dump
-      [@min_df, @max_df, @ngram_range, @sublinear_tf, @vocabulary, @idf, @num_documents, @fitted]
+      [@min_df, @max_df, @ngram_range, @sublinear_tf, @vocabulary, @idf, @num_documents, @fitted,
+       @min_word_length]
     end
 
     # @rbs (Array[untyped]) -> void
     def marshal_load(data)
-      @min_df, @max_df, @ngram_range, @sublinear_tf, @vocabulary, @idf, @num_documents, @fitted = data
+      @min_df, @max_df, @ngram_range, @sublinear_tf, @vocabulary, @idf, @num_documents, @fitted,
+        @min_word_length = data
       @dirty = false
       @storage = nil
     end
@@ -334,7 +342,7 @@ def extract_terms(document)
       result = Hash.new(0)
 
       if @ngram_range[0] <= 1
-        word_hash = document.clean_word_hash
+        word_hash = document.clean_word_hash(@min_word_length)
         word_hash.each { |term, count| result[term] += count }
       end
 
diff --git a/test/bayes/bayesian_test.rb b/test/bayes/bayesian_test.rb
index 43838a7d..f59d1f68 100644
--- a/test/bayes/bayesian_test.rb
+++ b/test/bayes/bayesian_test.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ def test_array_initialization
     assert_equal 'Spam', classifier.classify('this is spam')
   end
 
+  def test_initialization_with_min_word_length
+    classifier = Classifier::Bayes.new(%w[Spam Ham], min_word_length: 5)
+
+    classifier.train_spam 'bad nasty spam email'
+    classifier.train_ham 'good legitimate email'
+
+    assert_equal 'Spam', classifier.classify('nasty text')
+    assert_equal 'Ham', classifier.classify('legitimate text')
+    assert_equal 'Spam', classifier.classify('good text')
+  end
+
   def test_add_category
     @classifier.add_category 'Test'
 
diff --git a/test/config/config_test.rb b/test/config/config_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..556d0942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/config/config_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+require_relative '../test_helper'
+require 'classifier/config'
+
+class ConfigTest < Minitest::Test
+  def teardown
+    Classifier.config.min_word_length = 3
+  end
+
+  def test_configure
+    Classifier.configure do |config|
+      config.min_word_length = 1
+    end
+
+    assert_equal(1, Classifier.config.min_word_length)
+  end
+
+  def test_default
+    config = Classifier::Config.new
+
+    assert_equal(3, config.min_word_length)
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/logistic_regression/logistic_regression_test.rb b/test/logistic_regression/logistic_regression_test.rb
index 5b3c0893..73e0bf41 100644
--- a/test/logistic_regression/logistic_regression_test.rb
+++ b/test/logistic_regression/logistic_regression_test.rb
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ def test_custom_hyperparameters
     assert_instance_of Classifier::LogisticRegression, classifier
   end
 
+  def test_initialization_with_min_word_length
+    classifier = Classifier::LogisticRegression.new(%w[Spam Ham], min_word_length: 5)
+
+    classifier.train_spam 'bad nasty spam email'
+    classifier.train_ham 'good legitimate email'
+    classifier.fit
+
+    assert_equal 'Spam', classifier.classify('nasty text')
+    assert_equal 'Ham', classifier.classify('legitimate text')
+    assert_in_delta 0.5, classifier.probabilities('good text')['Spam'], 0.02
+  end
+
   def test_categories
     assert_equal %w[Spam Ham].sort, @classifier.categories.sort
   end
diff --git a/test/lsi/lsi_test.rb b/test/lsi/lsi_test.rb
index dbb0712f..9c8f92a9 100644
--- a/test/lsi/lsi_test.rb
+++ b/test/lsi/lsi_test.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ def test_add_batch_operations
     assert_equal ['Cat'], lsi.categories_for('Cats are independent')
   end
 
+  def test_custom_min_word_length
+    lsi = Classifier::LSI.new(min_word_length: 5)
+    lsi.add(
+      'Dog' => ['Dogs are loyal', 'Puppies are cute'],
+      'Cat' => ['Cats are independent', 'Kittens are playful']
+    )
+
+    assert_equal(['Dog'], lsi.categories_for('Puppies are cute'))
+  end
+
   def test_add_classification_works
     lsi = Classifier::LSI.new
     lsi.add(
diff --git a/test/tfidf/tfidf_test.rb b/test/tfidf/tfidf_test.rb
index fde00e2f..23f35f45 100644
--- a/test/tfidf/tfidf_test.rb
+++ b/test/tfidf/tfidf_test.rb
@@ -93,6 +93,16 @@ def test_invalid_ngram_range_raises
     assert_raises(ArgumentError) { Classifier::TFIDF.new(ngram_range: 'invalid') }
   end
 
+  def test_custom_min_word_length
+    tfidf = Classifier::TFIDF.new(min_word_length: 5)
+    tfidf.fit(@corpus)
+
+    v = tfidf.transform('Dogs are loyal')
+
+    assert_equal(1, v.count)
+    assert_in_delta(1.0, v[:loyal])
+  end
+
   # Fit tests
 
   def test_fit_builds_vocabulary