Searching word in vim?

Question

I can search word in vim with /word. How can I search only for word, excluding searches for word1 and word2?

Answer 1

like this:

/\

\< means beginning of a word, and \> means the end of a word,

Adding @Roe's comment:
VIM provides a shortcut for this. If you already have word on screen and you want to find other instances of it, you can put the cursor on the word and press '*' to search forward in the file or '#' to search backwards.