Every writer has crutch words they lean on without noticing, and every SEO knows that repetition patterns reveal whether an article truly covers its topic. Our free word frequency counter lists every distinct word in your text with its exact count and percentage share, sorted from most to least frequent. Use it to catch overused words before an editor does, to audit a page’s keyword usage, to analyse interview transcripts and survey answers, or to study the vocabulary of any document, all without uploading a single word anywhere.
Quick Answer: Paste any text and the counter instantly builds a table of every word with its count and percentage. Filter out common stop words and set a minimum count to focus on meaningful terms.
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Word Frequency Counter
See every word in your text, how often it appears, and its share.
How to Use the Word Frequency Counter
- Paste your article, transcript or document into the box; the table builds automatically.
- Review the most frequent words at the top of the table.
- Tick ‘hide common words’ to remove words like ‘the’ and ‘and’ and surface the meaningful vocabulary.
- Set a minimum count, for example 3, to ignore words that appear only once or twice.
- Scan for surprises: brand names, keywords and any word you are overusing without realising.
Key Features
- Complete frequency table with counts and percentage share for every distinct word.
- Stop-word filter hides the 40 most common English filler words on demand.
- Minimum-count filter helps you focus on repeated, meaningful terms.
- Case-insensitive counting merges ‘Word’, ‘word’ and ‘WORD’ into one entry.
- Instant local analysis for documents of any practical length, completely private.
Best Practices and Tips
- Sort your attention by percentage: any content word above roughly 3 percent in a long article deserves a synonym check.
- Compare the frequency tables of your draft and a top-ranking competitor’s page to find topics they emphasise that you have missed.
- For interview and survey analysis, the top nouns after filtering stop words usually reveal your themes at a glance.
- Re-run the counter after editing; it is the fastest way to confirm you really did cut the repetition you intended to.
- Export your attention, not just the table: copy the top twenty words into your notes before editing, then compare with the table afterwards to prove the edit actually changed the balance.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Treating high frequency as automatically bad; your subject word should repeat, and names and technical terms often must.
- Forgetting the counter treats ‘don’t’ and ‘dont’ as different words; clean apostrophes in messy transcripts for tidier results.
- Analysing a tiny sample: frequencies in 100 words swing wildly, so use at least a few hundred words for writing decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are stop words and why filter them?
Stop words are the small grammatical words, such as ‘the’, ‘of’ and ‘and’, that dominate any English text but carry little meaning. Filtering them reveals the vocabulary that actually defines your topic.
How is this different from the Keyword Density Checker?
The frequency counter lists every word with raw counts and shares, which suits writers and researchers. The Keyword Density Checker focuses on SEO, adding two-word and three-word phrase analysis and density guidance for a target keyword.
Can I export the frequency table?
You can copy the table directly from the page into a spreadsheet, where each row pastes as word, count and percentage. For very large texts, select the table area and copy in sections.
Does it count numbers and hyphenated words?
Numbers are counted as words when they stand alone. Hyphenated terms like ‘well-known’ are treated as a single word, matching how most readers and editors perceive them.
Is my text kept private?
Yes. Counting happens entirely in your browser. Manuscripts, transcripts and business documents are never uploaded or stored.
How can frequency data improve my SEO?
It reveals whether your article actually emphasises the terms your audience searches for, and exposes accidental obsessions with words that add nothing. Compare the table before and after editing a page targeting a keyword: the topic words should climb while filler stays flat.
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