Word Frequency Counter
Paste any text to see which words appear most often, with counts, percentages and totals updated as you type.
The frequency table appears here as soon as you enter some text.
Counting runs entirely in your browser — your text is never uploaded.
How it works
- Paste or type your text into the box — the frequency table updates instantly as you write.
- Adjust the options: set a minimum word length, exclude common English stop-words, or make counting case-sensitive.
- Review the top words with their counts and percentages, then use the Copy button to export the table as plain text.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the word frequency counter decide what counts as a word?
- Text is split on spaces and punctuation, so hyphenated forms like “well-known” become two words and “don’t” keeps its apostrophe as one word. Numbers count as words too. This matches how most word-frequency tools and concordance software tokenize English text.
- What are stop-words and why would I exclude them?
- Stop-words are extremely common function words such as “the”, “and”, “of” and “to” that dominate any frequency list without saying much about the topic. Excluding them surfaces the content words that actually characterize your text. The tool uses a built-in list of about 120 common English stop-words.
- Is my text uploaded anywhere when I use this tool?
- No. Counting happens entirely in your browser with JavaScript — nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored after you close the tab. That makes it safe for confidential drafts, client copy or unpublished manuscripts.
- What is word frequency analysis useful for?
- Writers use it to spot overused words and repetitive phrasing in drafts. SEO specialists check keyword density on a page, teachers analyze vocabulary range in student essays, and researchers get a quick sense of the dominant terms in interview transcripts or survey answers.
- Is there a limit on how much text I can analyze?
- There is no hard limit — the counter comfortably handles book-length texts of several hundred thousand words. Very large inputs are processed with a short delay after you stop typing so the page stays responsive. Everything still runs locally, so speed depends only on your device.
About this tool
The word frequency counter analyzes any piece of text and shows you exactly which words appear most often. Paste an essay, article, transcript or entire manuscript and you immediately get a ranked table of the top words, each with its raw count and its share of the total as a percentage, plus summary statistics for total words and unique words. The table updates live as you type or edit, so you can watch how a revision changes the balance of your vocabulary.
Everything runs client-side in your browser. The text is tokenized with a Unicode-aware splitter that treats letters, digits and internal apostrophes as part of a word, then counted in a single pass — no data ever leaves your device, and there is no account, quota or file upload involved. Because the work happens locally, results appear in milliseconds even for long documents, and the tool works offline once the page has loaded.
Three options control the analysis. A minimum word length filter hides short tokens such as single letters or two-letter fragments. The stop-word filter removes roughly 120 of the most common English function words — articles, prepositions, pronouns and auxiliaries — so the list reflects meaningful content words instead of grammar. Case-insensitive mode, on by default, merges “The” and “the” into one entry; switch it off when capitalization matters, for example when counting proper nouns separately.
Practical uses are broad. Novelists hunt down crutch words like “just” or “really” that creep into drafts. Content writers check that a target keyword appears at a sensible density rather than being stuffed. Students verify vocabulary variety before submitting essays, and analysts summarize open-ended survey responses at a glance. When you are done, one click copies the full table as tab-separated text ready to paste into a spreadsheet or report.