Word Frequency Counter
See which words appear most often in your text, with counts and percentages.
How to use the Word Frequency Counter
- Paste or type your text.
- The top 25 words appear ranked by how often they occur.
- Use the percentages to gauge keyword density.
About the Word Frequency Counter
A word frequency counter breaks your text into words and tallies how often each one appears, ranked from most to least common. It is a quick way to check keyword density for SEO, catch the words you lean on too heavily in your own writing, or get a rough sense of what any block of text is about. Paste your text and the 25 most frequent words appear immediately, each with a raw count and its share of the total as a percentage.
Words are compared in lowercase, so The and the are counted together. Punctuation is stripped, while digits and apostrophes are kept — meaning 2026 counts as a word and don't stays whole rather than splitting in two. Ties are broken alphabetically. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, which makes it safe for drafts and client work.
Be aware there is no stop-word filter: in ordinary prose the top of the list will be the, a and and, and your real keywords start further down. There is no stemming either, so run and running are counted separately, and hyphenated compounds split at the hyphen. For plain totals rather than a ranking, use the word counter or the character counter.
Frequently asked questions
Does it ignore capitalisation?
Yes. Everything is lowercased before counting, so Fox and fox are treated as the same word.
Is punctuation counted?
Punctuation is stripped, with one exception: apostrophes are kept inside words, so don't is counted as a single word rather than two fragments.
How many words does it show?
The 25 most frequent, ranked by count, with alphabetical order breaking any ties. That covers keyword analysis for most texts, though rarer terms below the cut-off are not listed.
Why is the top word always the?
Because there is no stop-word filter. Common function words genuinely are the most frequent in normal prose, so scan past them to find the content words that matter.
How is the percentage worked out?
It is that word's count divided by the total number of words in your text, shown to one decimal place. Percentages therefore reflect density across everything you pasted, not just the visible top 25.