Word Frequency Counter
Paste any text to see which words and phrases it repeats most, with how often each appears and its share of the whole.
Up to 5 million characters. It stays on this page: nothing is sent anywhere or saved.
This page’s own list of common words (159)
a, about, after, again, all, also, am, an, and, any, are, aren't, as, at, be, because, been, before, being, both, but, by, can, can't, could, couldn't, did, didn't, do, does, doesn't, doing, don't, down, each, even, every, for, from, had, has, hasn't, have, haven't, having, he, he's, her, here, hers, herself, him, himself, his, how, i, i'd, i'll, i'm, i've, if, in, into, is, isn't, it, it's, its, itself, just, let's, may, me, might, more, most, much, must, my, myself, no, nor, not, now, of, off, on, once, only, or, other, our, ours, ourselves, out, over, own, same, she, she's, should, shouldn't, so, some, such, than, that, that's, the, their, theirs, them, themselves, then, there, there's, these, they, they're, this, those, through, to, too, under, until, up, upon, us, very, was, wasn't, we, we're, were, weren't, what, when, where, whether, which, while, who, whom, whose, why, will, with, won't, would, wouldn't, yet, you, you're, you've, your, yours, yourself, yourselves
Paste or type some text to count its words.
| # | Word | Count | Share of all words |
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See which words a text leans on
Repeated words are easy to miss in your own writing and hard to count by hand. A report that says “really” forty times, a web page that never uses the phrase people search for, a speech that keeps circling one idea: a count of words and phrases shows all of these at a glance.
How to use it
- Paste or type your text. Press Try an example to see how it works first.
- Choose words, two-word phrases or three-word phrases.
- Tick Leave out common words to skip small words such as the and of.
- Sort the table by count or A to Z, then copy it or download the CSV.
Reading the table
Each row shows the word or phrase, how many times it appears and its share: for words, its share of every word in the text; for phrases, of every phrase of that length. Words that appear equally often are listed A to Z. The table shows the top 25 to 1,000; the CSV has every one.
Your browser finds the words by the Unicode rules for word boundaries, so “don’t” is one word and “well-known” is two. Capitals don’t matter, numbers count as words, and a phrase never runs across punctuation or a line break.
What the options do
- Count: single words, or runs of two or three words next to each other.
- Leave out common words: hides the words on this page’s list above, and phrases that start or end with one.
- Order: A to Z re-sorts the rows shown; the number on the left stays each row’s place by count.
Good practice
- Check a draft for a word you lean on too often, then vary it.
- Compare the phrases in a job ad, a brief or a set of notes with your own wording.
Good to know
- Up to 5 million characters. Long texts are counted in the background, so the page stays usable.
- Copy table gives tab-separated text, which pastes into a spreadsheet as columns.
- Spreadsheet-safe: in the CSV and the copied table, a cell starting with =, +, - or @ gets an apostrophe in front, so it can’t run as a formula.
- Just need totals? The Word and Character Counter counts words, characters, sentences and paragraphs; this page shows which words they are.
- Private: your text stays on your device and isn’t saved.