Word Frequency Counter
Paste text to see which words appear most often.
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How to find the most common words in a text
- Paste an article, essay or any block of text.
- Choose whether to hide common words like “the” and “and”, and set a minimum word length.
- Click Analyse to see the most frequent words and their counts.
About this tool
Words are extracted as runs of letters, digits, and internal apostrophes (so don't counts as one word), then counted. "Hide common stop words" filters out roughly 60 of the most frequent English function words (the, and, is, to, of, and similar) that would otherwise dominate almost any word-frequency list without saying much about the text's actual content.
Nothing you paste here is sent to a server — the entire tool runs as JavaScript in your browser tab.
Questions about word frequency
What are stop words?
Very common words such as the, and, is, to and of. Hiding them shows the words that actually describe what the text is about.
Can I use it to check keyword use?
Yes. Paste a web page’s text to see which words it uses most, and whether a keyword is overused.
How do I find words I repeat too often in an essay?
Paste the essay, hide stop words and set a minimum length of 4 or 5. Words you lean on will rise to the top.
Are “Run” and “run” counted together?
Yes, they’re counted as the same word, unless you tick Case-sensitive to count them separately.