What Is the Word Frequency Counter?
The Word Frequency Counter analyzes any text and ranks every unique word by how often it appears — the complete list, not just a top-5 preview. Filter by excluding common stop words, toggle case sensitivity, and set minimum word length or occurrence thresholds to focus on exactly the words you care about.
For example, pasting a paragraph and excluding stop words instantly surfaces the most repeated meaningful terms — useful for spotting overused words in your own writing or checking keyword density before publishing.
How to Use the Word Frequency Counter
- Paste or type your text into the input box.
- Toggle Exclude stop words to filter out words like "the" and "and".
- Adjust Min word length or Min occurrences to narrow the list.
- Sort by frequency or alphabetically using the sort control.
- Click Copy to copy the table, or CSV to download it as a spreadsheet.
Where Can You Use Word Frequency Analysis?
SEO Keyword Density
Check how often a target keyword appears in a draft before publishing, and spot accidental keyword stuffing.
Editing and Proofreading
Find words you repeat too often across an essay, article, or manuscript and vary your vocabulary.
Text and Linguistic Analysis
The type-token ratio gives a quick measure of vocabulary diversity for research or classroom text analysis.
Data and Survey Responses
Paste open-ended survey answers or interview transcripts to quickly spot the most common terms.
Filters Explained
- Exclude stop words: Filters out ~90 common English words (the, and, is, of, and similar) that rarely carry meaning on their own.
- Case sensitive: When off (default), "Apple" and "apple" count as the same word. When on, they count separately.
- Min word length: Hides words shorter than the number of characters you set.
- Min occurrences: Hides words that appear fewer times than the threshold — useful for focusing on genuinely repeated terms in long text.
- Type-Token Ratio: Unique words divided by total words counted (after filters). Closer to 1.0 means more varied vocabulary; closer to 0 means more repetition.
Best Practices and Limitations
Word matching is based on letters, numbers, and apostrophes — punctuation is stripped, so "don't" and "dont" are treated as written, and words are split on whitespace and punctuation boundaries. All processing runs locally in your browser; no text is ever sent to a server.
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