Word Frequency Counter
Paste any text and see which words appear most often, with counts you can sort, filter, and export. It is a quick way to spot repetition in writing, mine keywords from research notes, or analyze survey responses.
Step-by-step guide to the Word Frequency Counter
- Paste the text you want to analyze into the input box.
- Choose whether matching should ignore capitalization and filter out common stop words.
- Press the analyze button to produce a ranked word list with occurrence counts.
- Sort the results or copy them out for further use.
Practical scenarios for the Word Frequency Counter
- Editing essays and speeches to catch words you have overused.
- Extracting candidate keywords from customer feedback or interview transcripts.
- Comparing vocabulary distribution between two drafts of the same piece.
- Building simple word lists for language learning or puzzle games.
How the Word Frequency Counter works under the hood
The tool splits your text into tokens, optionally lowercases them, and tallies each occurrence in a frequency table. Stop-word filtering removes high-frequency function words such as "the" and "and" so the ranking highlights meaningful terms instead of grammar. All tokenization and counting run locally in your browser, which matters when the text comes from private research, legal drafts, or unpublished manuscripts.
What the Word Frequency Counter does not do
Counts are word-based, so different grammatical forms ("run" versus "running") are treated as separate words rather than grouped.
Common questions about the Word Frequency Counter
Are common words like "the" included in the count?
You can toggle a filter that excludes typical English stop words from the ranking.
Is my text stored anywhere?
No. Analysis runs in your browser and the text is discarded when you leave the page.
Can I export the results?
Yes, the ranked list can be copied directly from the results panel.
Last reviewed: October 2026.