Word frequency

Paste your text and find out which words you use most often, with counts and percentages. You can filter out articles and prepositions to see only the words that matter.

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What word frequency analysis is good for

Seeing which words appear most often helps in plenty of real situations. Writers and students spot the repetitions they should swap for a synonym; SEO specialists check that a keyword shows up often enough without overdoing it (keyword stuffing gets penalized); language learners discover the core vocabulary of a passage; and anyone preparing a speech can make sure they aren't leaning on the same terms over and over. The percentage next to each count tells you how much "weight" every word carries in the text as a whole.

Why exclude common words

In almost any English text the most frequent words are articles, prepositions and conjunctions: "the", "of", "and", "to" top every list yet say nothing about the content. Filtering them out (linguists call them "stop words") lets the truly meaningful words emerge β€” the nouns, verbs and adjectives that give your text its character. The minimum-length filter serves the same purpose: raise it to 4 or 5 letters to focus only on the richest, most distinctive terms.