Word Frequency Counter
Paste any text and instantly see which words appear most, ranked from most to least common.
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What this tool does
The Word Frequency Counter reads your text and tallies how many times each individual word appears, then ranks the results from most common to least common. It is a fast way to spot repetition, find your go-to phrases, check keyword density in an article, or study the vocabulary of any passage. Everything runs in your browser, so your text never leaves your device and nothing is uploaded to a server.
Why word frequency matters
Writers use frequency counts to catch words they lean on too heavily and to tighten prose. Students and researchers use them to analyze texts, speeches, and survey responses. Content and SEO folks use them to gauge how often a target term shows up relative to everything else. Because the table also shows each word's share of the total, you can see at a glance whether one term dominates or the language is evenly spread.
How to use it
- Paste or type your text into the box above.
- Leave Case-insensitive on to treat "The" and "the" as the same word, or turn it off to count them separately.
- Turn on Ignore common words to skip filler like "the", "and", and "of" so the meaningful words rise to the top.
- Raise Min length to hide short words (set it to 4, for example, to drop most two- and three-letter words).
- Read the sorted table: rank, word, raw count, and its percentage share of the words shown.
FAQ
- How is a "word" defined?
- Any run of letters, numbers, and internal hyphens or apostrophes counts as one word, so "don't" and "well-known" stay intact. Punctuation and spaces separate words.
- What counts as a common word?
- A built-in list of everyday English stopwords such as "the", "a", "and", "to", "is", and "of". They are only removed when Ignore common words is checked.
- Does the total include ignored words?
- The "total words" figure counts every word in your text. The "unique words shown" figure and the table reflect only the words left after your case, stopword, and length filters.
- Is my text private?
- Yes. All counting happens locally in your browser and nothing is ever sent or stored anywhere.