Paste any text to see exactly how many times each word appears. Sort by frequency or alphabetically, filter stop words, and export your results.
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A word frequency counter scans a piece of text and tallies how many times each individual word appears, then presents the results ranked from most to least common. This kind of analysis is useful in several distinct fields. For SEO professionals, it quickly reveals whether a target keyword appears at the right density — frequently enough to signal relevance to search engines, but not so often that it triggers over-optimisation penalties. For writers and editors, it exposes repetitive vocabulary that may need variation. For researchers and data analysts, it provides a fast way to identify the dominant themes in a document without reading the entire thing. For students, it helps check that an essay is using key terms with the right emphasis. Use our Word Counter to get the total word and character count of your text before diving into frequency analysis.
Stop words are extremely high-frequency function words that appear in virtually every piece of English text: articles like “the” and “a”, prepositions like “in”, “on” and “of”, conjunctions like “and” and “but”, and common verbs like “is” and “are”. In almost all analyses, these words dominate the frequency table but carry no meaningful information about the document’s topic. The “Filter stop words” option removes them so you see only the substantive words that reveal actual content. Turn filtering off only if you are doing linguistic research where function word frequency is meaningful, such as authorship attribution analysis.
The percentage column shows each word’s frequency as a proportion of the total word count in your text: count ÷ total words × 100. For SEO purposes, a target keyword appearing at 1–2% density is generally considered healthy. Below 0.5% the term may be too sparse to register as a topic signal; above 3–4% may be flagged as keyword stuffing by search engine algorithms. This tool makes it easy to verify keyword density before publishing by entering your draft content and checking the percentage next to your target term. Pair this with our Character Counter to also verify meta description and title length.
The minimum word length field excludes words shorter than the specified number of characters from the results. The default is 2, which removes single-letter words like “a”, “I”, and standalone punctuation characters. Setting it to 3 or higher further cleans the results by removing short two-letter words that often appear frequently but add little analytical value. For most SEO and content analysis tasks, a minimum length of 3 combined with stop word filtering gives the clearest view of your text’s meaningful vocabulary.
Yes. The “Copy as CSV” button copies the full results table to your clipboard in comma-separated values format, ready to paste into a spreadsheet. The “Download CSV” button saves the same data as a .csv file you can open directly in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or any other spreadsheet application for further analysis, charting, or sharing. The CSV includes columns for rank, word, count, and percentage.
The Word Counter shows a quick keyword density panel with the top 15 terms as visual pills — useful for a fast overview. This Word Frequency Counter provides a full sortable, filterable table with every word in your text, exact counts, precise percentages, frequency bar charts, CSV export, and options for case sensitivity and minimum word length. It is the right tool when you need a thorough, exportable analysis rather than a quick glance. Use the Word Counter for day-to-day writing and this tool for detailed content audits or research.
By default, the tool is case-insensitive: “The”, “the” and “THE” are all counted as the same word. This is appropriate for most writing analysis tasks. Enabling case-sensitive mode treats each capitalisation variant as a distinct word, which is useful when analysing code, data with deliberate case distinctions, or technical documentation where “API” and “api” may mean different things.
Yes. Frequency analysis is a practical editing technique for academic writing. Paste your essay or paper and sort by frequency to find overused words that could be replaced with synonyms for more varied vocabulary. Check that your thesis keywords appear with appropriate frequency relative to the total word count. Identify filler phrases that inflate word count without adding meaning. After editing, check your final word count with our Word Counter and verify spelling with our Spell Checker before submission.