See which words dominate your writing
It is hard to notice your own overused words just by reading your own text — a habit invisible to the writer is often obvious to a reader. This free word frequency counter tallies every word in a piece of text and ranks them from most to least common, instantly surfacing patterns you would otherwise miss.
What word frequency actually reveals
A frequency list turns a wall of text into a simple ranked table: which words appear most, and how many times. For a piece of writing, that often exposes a handful of words leaned on far more than intended. For a keyword research task, it shows exactly which terms a piece of content actually emphasises, independent of what the writer intended to focus on.
Keyword density and SEO
In SEO, keyword density is a word's frequency expressed as a share of the total word count — if "password" appears 8 times in a 400-word article, its density is 2%. Historically some writers chased a specific density target, but modern search engines are far more concerned with content actually being useful and naturally worded than with hitting a percentage. The real value of checking density today is the opposite of stuffing: it flags when a keyword — or any word — has been repeated so often that the writing reads awkwardly, so it can be trimmed back to something more natural.
Spotting overused words in your own writing
Writers develop verbal tics without noticing — a favourite adverb, a pet phrase, a word repeated in every other sentence. A frequency count makes these habits impossible to miss, because the word simply sits at the top of the list with a number attached. That visibility is often the fastest route to tighter, more varied prose.
How word tokenizing works under the hood
To count words fairly, the tool first breaks text into individual tokens by splitting on spaces and punctuation, then lowercases each one so that "Tools", "tools" and "TOOLS" are all counted as the same word rather than three separate entries. Only after this normalisation does it tally how many times each distinct word occurs.
How to use the tool
Paste any text — an article, an essay, a product description — and the ranked frequency table appears immediately. Toggle the stopword filter to hide common connective words like "the", "is" and "and" if you want the list to highlight only the more meaningful, topic-carrying vocabulary.
Frequency analysis beyond writing
Counting word frequency is not only a writing or SEO tool — it is one of the oldest techniques in computational linguistics and literary analysis, used to compare an author's vocabulary across works, study how language changes over time, or build the earliest versions of search-engine ranking and spam filtering, both of which started from essentially this same idea: which words appear, and how often.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly counts as a 'word' here?
The tool splits text on whitespace and punctuation, lowercases each token for consistent counting, and treats the resulting sequences of letters and numbers as individual words.
Does it ignore common words like 'the' and 'and'?
There is an optional stopword filter that hides very common connective words, letting the more meaningful, topic-carrying words rise to the top of the list.
Is this the same thing as keyword density?
They are closely related. Keyword density is simply a word's frequency expressed as a percentage of the total word count, which is exactly what this tool calculates for every word at once.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No, the analysis runs entirely in your browser, so drafts and any sensitive text stay on your device.