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Word Frequency Counter

Count how often each word appears, with stop-word filter.

Runs in your browser

Paste text. We list every word, how many times it appears, and its share of the total - with options for case folding, a minimum-length filter, a stop-word filter, and a top-N cap.

Paste text to see word frequencies.

How to use it

  1. Paste your text

    Any length. Counting happens locally.

  2. Tune the filters

    Minimum word length, case folding, stop-word removal, top-N cap.

  3. Copy the result

    Copy button gives you a CSV of the visible rows for paste into a sheet.

What is it?

A word frequency counter tallies each distinct word in a text. Coupled with a stop-word filter, it surfaces the topic-bearing vocabulary - the words that actually carry the meaning of the piece. It's the simplest form of text statistics, used by linguists, SEO writers and content strategists.

When to use it

Spot-checking the keyword balance of a piece of SEO content. Finding the over-used phrase in a draft. Auditing reading-level for a target audience. Comparing two articles for vocabulary overlap. Building a vocabulary list for language learning.

Common mistakes

Forgetting that stop-word filtering removes 'the' but not 'they' - very different word, similar stem. Treating the percentages as keyword density for SEO without normalising for content length. And reading too much into single-occurrence words: noise at the bottom of any frequency table.

FAQ

Which stop words are filtered?
The common articles, conjunctions and pronouns of English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese - the words that swamp any frequency table without adding meaning.

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