Word Frequency Counter
Paste text to see which words you use most — ranked live as you type. Nothing leaves your device.
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See what your text is really about
A frequency ranking is the fastest honest summary of a text: it ignores what you meant to emphasize and shows what you actually repeated. Editors use it to catch crutch words, SEO writers use it to check that a page's vocabulary matches its target query, and students use it to spot the padding in an essay. The counter tokenizes with Unicode-aware rules — accented words, contractions like "don't", and hyphenated words each count as one word — folds everything to lowercase, and by default drops about sixty English function words ('the', 'of', 'and'…) so the meaningful vocabulary surfaces.
Worked example
Paste "Sales grew fast because the sales team focused on repeat sales and repeat customers." The text has 14 words in total. With the stop-word filter on, the ranking is led by sales — 3 times, 21.4% of all words — followed by repeat (2, 14.3%), with 8 unique words counted. One glance tells you the sentence is about sales and repetition — which is exactly the kind of signal the table gives you for a full page of copy.
Frequently asked questions
Why filter out common stop words?
Because in almost any English text the top of the raw ranking is 'the', 'and', 'of', 'to' — true for every document ever written, and therefore useless. Filtering roughly sixty of these function words lets the words that actually carry your meaning rise to the top. Untick the box any time you want the raw, unfiltered ranking.
Does capitalization affect the counts?
No. Every word is normalized to lowercase before counting, so 'Report', 'report', and 'REPORT' are tallied as one entry. That's almost always what you want for frequency analysis — a word's rank shouldn't depend on whether it started a sentence.
How much repetition is normal in writing?
For content words there's no fixed rule, but a useful editing signal: if a distinctive word (not a name or a technical term you must repeat) claims more than 2–3% of your total words, readers will start noticing it. Run a draft through the counter and check whether your top-ranked words are the ones you'd want a reader to remember.
Can I use this for SEO keyword analysis?
Yes — that's one of the most practical uses. Paste a finished page and check that your target phrase's words actually appear near the top, and that you haven't over-repeated them into keyword-stuffing territory. Comparing your draft's ranking against the vocabulary of the page you want to outrank takes about a minute.