Word Frequency Counter
Paste any text and see how many times each word appears, with counts and percentages of the total. Filter stop words, set a minimum length, and copy the results — all in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
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Why This Tool Matters
Repetition is easy to miss in your own writing. A student revising an essay can paste it in and discover that "important" appears fourteen times; a blogger can check whether the target keyword shows up naturally or is being stuffed; an editor can spot a crutch word like "really" or "very" before it reaches print. Sorting by count surfaces those habits in seconds.
It's equally useful for analysis. Researchers and marketers drop in survey answers, reviews, or interview transcripts to see which terms come up most, and with stop words filtered out, the top ten words usually sketch the topic on their own. Export the table as CSV to chart it in a spreadsheet or feed it into another workflow.
How to Use
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Paste your text
Type or paste an essay, article, transcript, or any block of text — counts update live.
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Tune the options
Toggle case sensitivity and stop words, set a minimum word length, or show only the top N words.
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Sort and copy
Sort by count or alphabetically, then copy the table as CSV or plain text.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How are words counted?
A word is a run of letters or digits in any language. Apostrophes and hyphens between letters stay inside the word, so "don't" and "well-known" each count once, while punctuation, spaces, and line breaks separate words. The percentage column is each word's share of all words counted after your filters are applied.
What are stop words?
Stop words are very common function words — "the", "and", "of", "is", "to" — that appear in nearly every text and usually drown out the words that actually describe it. Turning on "Ignore common stop words" removes a standard list of English stop words so your topic words rise to the top. It is off by default, so the raw counts are shown unless you ask otherwise.
Is the count case sensitive?
Not by default. With "Case-insensitive" on, "The", "THE", and "the" are merged into a single lowercase entry. Turn it off if you need to tell them apart — for example to separate a proper noun like "Apple" from the fruit "apple" — and each capitalization is counted separately.
Is my text stored or sent to a server?
No. Counting runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or saved, so it is safe to analyze drafts, private notes, and confidential documents.