Analyze text and count word occurrences sorted by frequency
A word frequency counter analyses a block of text and counts how many times each word appears, listing them sorted by frequency or alphabetically. It turns a wall of text into a ranked picture of what it is actually about: the words used most often usually reveal the main themes, while the long tail of single-use words shows the vocabulary range. It is the simplest form of text analysis, and a surprisingly revealing one for writing, SEO and editing.
The practical uses are everywhere words matter. Writers spot a word they have leaned on too heavily; SEO and content work checks which keywords actually dominate a page; editors catch repetition and filler. A good counter handles the details that make the count meaningful — treating "Word" and "word" as the same, ignoring punctuation, and optionally skipping common "stop words" like the and and that would otherwise top every list. This tool runs the analysis in your browser, so even private documents are never uploaded.
A good counter is case-insensitive by default, so "The" and "the" count as the same word — otherwise the same word split by capitalisation would scatter across the list. Some tools let you turn case-sensitivity on if you need to distinguish them.
Stop words are extremely common words like "the", "and", "is" and "of" that appear in almost any text and usually carry little meaning. Excluding them lets the meaningful, topic-specific words rise to the top instead of being buried under filler. Many counters make this optional.
Punctuation is typically stripped so that "word," and "word" count as the same token, and the analysis focuses on the words themselves. How hyphens and apostrophes are treated can vary, which affects whether "don't" or "well-known" count as one word or several.
No. The analysis runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent to a server. You can safely analyse private documents, drafts or confidential text.
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