This word frequency counter ranks every word in your text by how often it appears — counts, percentages and unique-word stats — for SEO, editing and text analysis.
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Counting is case-insensitive and punctuation is stripped (“Dog.” counts as “dog”). Stop words (the, a, of) naturally dominate English prose — for keyword work, read the table below them: repeated content words reveal what your text is actually about, whether you meant it or not.
What Repetition Reveals
Totals live on our Word Counter Calculator; this page opens the distribution. Writers find crutch words, SEO editors find accidental keyword stuffing (and missing keywords), and speechwriters find the phrases an audience will actually remember. Part of our Other Calculators collection.
Worked Example (Verified on the Sample Text)
- The prefilled pangram variant totals 23 words, 15 unique: “the” leads at 5 (≈21.7%) — function words always sit on top of honest English
- “Dog” follows at 3 — the sample’s true subject, exactly the pattern keyword analysis hunts: the topic word repeats after the stop words
- Case and punctuation are normalized before counting, so “The”, “the” and “the,” are one entry — raw-regex counters that skip this overcount uniqueness badly
- Vocabulary richness (unique ÷ total) shrinks as texts lengthen — compare it only between similar-length pieces
Using Frequencies Without Superstition
- Keyword density targets are folklore ranges (1–2%), not laws — natural topical writing repeats its subject because it’s about it.
- Crutch-word edits: search your top content words for accidental echoes (three “important”s in one paragraph).
- Legal/technical consistency: frequency tables expose drifting terminology (login vs log-in vs signin counts).
- Corpus linguists call this concordance analysis — your text’s table is its fingerprint.
Related Tools
- Word Counter Calculator — totals, characters, reading time
- Case Converter — normalize the text itself
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I count how many times a word appears in text?
Paste the text here: the counter lowercases everything, strips punctuation, tallies each distinct word and ranks the top 25 with counts and percentage share. Ctrl-F counts one word at a time and misses case/punctuation variants; this counts them all at once, correctly.
What are stop words and should I remove them?
Stop words are high-frequency function words (the, of, and, to) that carry grammar, not topic. This counter shows everything — including them, honestly — but for keyword insights, read past them to the first repeated content words; those carry your text’s actual subject density.
What is keyword density?
A term’s count ÷ total words × 100. The sample’s “dog” density is 3/23 ≈ 13% (toy text exaggerates). On real pages, densities of 1–2% for a target phrase are typical of natural writing; far above that reads as stuffing to humans and algorithms alike.
Does the counter treat “Word” and “word” as the same?
Yes — counting is case-insensitive and punctuation-tolerant, so capitalized sentence-starters and comma-carrying instances merge into one entry. Hyphenated compounds split at the hyphen; contractions like “don’t” stay whole.
What is vocabulary richness (type-token ratio)?
Unique words (types) ÷ total words (tokens). The sample scores ≈65% because it’s tiny; a 1,000-word article typically scores 40–55%. It measures repetition, not quality — legal precision repeats terms deliberately and poetry cheats by brevity.
Is this word frequency counter free?
Yes — free, instant, and private: your text never leaves your browser.