Word Frequency Counter

Word Frequency Counter breaks a piece of writing into words and ranks them by how often each one appears. The table shows the word, its count, and what percentage of the whole text it represents, so you can see at a glance which terms carry the piece.

Two filters make the result useful rather than obvious. The stop-word filter removes the structural words that top every English text, such as the, and, of and to, leaving the words that actually say something. The minimum-length filter hides short words that slipped through. You can also fold capitalisation together so The and the are counted once.

Writers use this to catch themselves repeating a favourite word. Editors use it to check that a piece stays on topic. People working on search visibility use it to see keyword density, though it is worth saying plainly that stuffing a page with a repeated term does not help rankings and reads badly to people.

• Ranks every word by frequency
• Count and percentage of total words for each entry
• Optional English stop-word filter
• Minimum word length filter
• Case folding so The and the count together
• Totals for words and unique words
• Copy or download the full ranking

The word frequency counter is used by writers, developers, students, marketers and anyone else who needs the job done once without installing software. Common cases include:

• Spotting a word you have repeated too often in a draft
• Checking the dominant terms in a long document
• Summarising the themes of a transcript or set of reviews
• Reviewing keyword density on a page of copy
• Preparing a word list for a vocabulary or study exercise