Word Frequency Counter

A word frequency counter reads any block of text and shows you a ranked table of how often each word — or each multi-word phrase — appears. Paste an article, an essay, a meeting transcript, a pile of customer reviews or a chapter of a book, and within a fraction of a second you get every distinct term sorted from most common to least common, complete with raw counts, percentages and a visual frequency bar. It is built for writers tightening up repetitive prose, SEO specialists checking keyword density, students and researchers doing basic text analysis, and anyone curious about the shape of a piece of writing.

Unlike a plain word counter that only tells you the total, this tool answers the more useful question: which words actually carry the document? The moment you strip out the grammatical glue with the stopword toggle, the words that define your subject rise to the top of the list.

How it works

The counter tokenises your text with a Unicode-aware rule, so accented letters and non-Latin scripts are handled correctly and intra-word apostrophes (as in don't or it's) stay intact. You control how aggressive the cleanup is:

• Ignore case folds The and the into one entry.
• Strip punctuation keeps only letters and numbers, so dog. and dog count together.
• Remove stopwords drops a built-in list of roughly 180 common English function words, and you can add your own domain-specific words (brand names, filler) to the list.
• Min length, min count and show top N trim short tokens, rare terms and long tails.

In single-word mode each token is counted directly. In phrase mode the tool slides an n-word window across the cleaned token stream and counts every overlapping sequence, revealing repeated bigrams and trigrams. Alongside the table it computes live document statistics — total words, unique words, characters with and without spaces, sentence and line counts, average word length and lexical density (unique words ÷ total words, a rough richness measure).

Example

Paste a product description that repeats the phrase easy to use and turn on phrase mode with a length of 3. The trigram easy to use jumps to the top of the table with its exact count, while single-word mode would have scattered those signals across easy, to and use. Switch back to words, enable stopword removal, and the genuinely meaningful terms — the product’s features and benefits — surface immediately so you can judge whether your copy is on-message or padded.

Every count, percentage and CSV row is generated in your browser — no text is ever uploaded or stored on a server.