Word Frequency Counter
Count how often each word appears and get a ranked table
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How it works
Paste any text into the left pane: an essay, a blog post, product copy or survey answers. The tool splits it into words, lowercases them and counts each one, with the most frequent at the top. Stop words such as "the", "and" and "of" are ignored by default, so in a 600-word article about coffee you see "coffee" with 11 hits at the top of the list rather than "the" with 40. Switch to two-word phrases to check keyword density for SEO: the table shows how many times "filter coffee" or "coffee shop" appears. Numbers such as 2026 are left out of the table and reported in the summary line. Choose CSV to get a comma-separated file with a dot as decimal mark; press Download and open it in Excel or Google Sheets to sort, filter or chart the counts.
This tool is also known as word frequency counter, word counter frequency, most common words in text, keyword density checker, count repeated words, phrase frequency, ngram counter.
What is Word frequency?
Word frequency is how many times a word occurs in a text, often shown as a share of all words. Writers use it to spot repetition, teachers to see recycled phrases in essays, and researchers to summarise open survey answers. On its own it says little about meaning: in almost every language the most frequent words are articles and pronouns, which is why stop words are usually filtered out.
What is Stop words?
Stop words are the small grammatical words that carry little topic: the, and, of, to, is. Search engines and text analysis tools often skip them. The lists used here come from the open-source stopwords-iso project and hold several hundred words per language; the English list is on the generous side and also drops words like "said" and "new".
What is N-gram?
An n-gram is a run of n consecutive words: two words make a bigram, three a trigram. "filter coffee" is a bigram. Counting n-grams brings out phrases that disappear when you look at single words, and it is the simplest way to measure how often a multi-word keyword appears on a page.
Word count vs word frequency: what is the difference?
A word count gives the length of a text as one number: 850 words. Word frequency breaks those 850 words down by how often each one appears: "coffee" 12, "beans" 5. The first tells you whether an essay or ad fits a limit; the second shows what the text keeps repeating. Use the Character Counter for totals and this tool for the breakdown.
The catch: word forms are counted separately
The tool counts words exactly as written; it does not reduce them to a root. "run", "runs" and "running" appear as three rows. For a quick look at repetition this is what you want, but if you need the total weight of a topic, add up the rows that share the same stem, or export to CSV and sum them in a spreadsheet.
Contractions stay whole ("don't" is one word), and hyphenated words such as "well-known" count as one. Phrases never cross a sentence end: a full stop, question mark, semicolon or line break starts a new run.
Which setting fits which job?
The same text answers different questions depending on the settings:
- Did I overuse a word in my essay → single words, stop words ignored
- Keyword density for a web page → two- or three-word phrases
- Themes in survey answers → single words first, then two-word phrases to confirm
- Vocabulary list for language learners → count stop words too, since they are the most common words
- Charts or reports → CSV, then sort and filter in a spreadsheet
Frequently asked questions
Which stop words are removed?
The English, Turkish, German, French and Spanish lists from the open-source stopwords-iso project — words like the, and, of, is, to. The tool compares your text with all five lists and uses the one that matches best; the summary line names the list and how many words it removed.
What is the percentage based on?
On the words (or phrases) that were counted. Removed stop words are not part of the total: if 60 of 200 words are stop words, a word that appears 7 times gets 7 / 140 = 5%.
Is this the same as keyword density?
Yes, for a single page it is. Keyword density is simply the frequency of a word or phrase divided by the total. Use the two-word or three-word setting for multi-word keywords.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The counting runs inside your browser and the text never leaves your device, so drafts and confidential documents are safe to analyse.