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Word Frequency Counter online

Count word frequencies — find the most common words in any text

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How to Use the Word Frequency Counter

  1. Paste or enter your input into the text field.
  2. Configure any options (format, delimiter, encoding, or mode) using the controls above the output.
  3. The result updates instantly — no submit button required for most operations.
  4. Click Copy or Download to take the output to your next step.

Find the most common words in any block of text — useful for SEO keyword analysis, content audits, classroom exercises, and exploratory text mining. The tool tokenises on letter/apostrophe boundaries, optionally lower-cases everything, then builds a frequency table sorted high-to-low.

How the Word Frequency Counter Works

An optional stop-word filter removes around 50 of the most common English structural words (the, a, of, and, …) so the rankings reflect content rather than grammar. Total and unique word counts are displayed alongside a horizontal bar chart of the top 100 words for quick visual comparison.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the tool define a “word”?

Any sequence of letters and apostrophes between non-letter characters. Numbers, punctuation, and symbols act as separators. So “don’t” counts as one word, but “Chapter-1” splits into “Chapter” and “1” (the 1 is then dropped).

Which words are filtered when ‘Skip common’ is on?

A built-in list of around 50 of the most frequent English stop-words (the, a, an, and, or, of, in, on, to, for, with, etc.). Useful for SEO keyword density and for thematic word clouds where structural words drown out the signal.

Are case differences merged?

Only when “Case insensitive” is on (the default). Then “The”, “the”, and “THE” all share the same bucket. Turn it off to keep them separate — useful when proper nouns matter.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No — the analysis runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing about your text leaves the page.

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