Free Word Frequency Counter
Find the most frequently used words in an article, essay, report, document or other text.
Paste text and select Analyze Text.
Word Frequency Results
Top 50 words| Rank | Word | Count | Percentage |
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What Is Word Frequency?
Word frequency describes how often a particular word appears in a piece of text. Frequency analysis can help writers identify repeated terms, examine vocabulary patterns and review whether certain words are being used more often than intended.
Useful For Writers
Identify overused words and recurring vocabulary before editing articles, reports, essays or other documents.
Useful For SEO
Examine vocabulary patterns in content and identify frequently appearing terms. Frequency alone does not determine search rankings.
Useful For Academic Writing
Review repeated vocabulary during editing and improve variety where appropriate without changing the intended meaning.
Useful For Content Editing
Analyze recurring terms before proofreading, rewriting or preparing content for publication.
How It Works
The tool identifies words in the text, counts each occurrence and sorts the results from most frequent to least frequent. The optional stop-word filter removes common English words such as “the”, “and” and “of” from the analysis.
Results are based on automated text processing and may vary depending on punctuation, spelling, language and unusual word forms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the word frequency counter measure?
It counts how frequently individual words occur in the text you provide and ranks them by frequency.
Does capitalization affect the results?
When Ignore case is selected, words such as “Report” and “report” are treated as the same word.
What are stop words?
Stop words are common words such as “the”, “and”, “is” and “of” that are sometimes excluded when analyzing vocabulary patterns.
Does the tool support languages other than English?
The basic word analysis can process many Unicode word characters, but the optional stop-word filter is designed specifically for common English words.