What the counter shows
Paste any text and the tool builds a live league table of your most used words, showing how many times each appears and what percentage of the whole text that represents. Counting is case-insensitive, so London and london are treated as the same word, and punctuation is stripped so "word," and "word" count together. The list shows the top 20 words, alongside the total word count and the number of unique words.
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Stopwords, and why you can ignore them
Run any English text through a frequency counter and the same words win every time: the, and, of, to, a, in. These function words hold sentences together but say nothing about what the text is actually about, which is why linguists and search engines call them stopwords and routinely filter them out. Tick the box above and the tool hides about 50 of the most common ones, letting the meaningful words rise to the top of the list.
The percentages are always calculated against the full word count, including stopwords, so a word's percentage does not change when you toggle the filter. That keeps the numbers honest: if "delivery" is 3% of your page, it stays 3% whichever view you are looking at.
Spotting your writing tics
Every writer has a small set of words they lean on without noticing: however, really, just, actually, very. A frequency count makes them impossible to ignore. Paste in an essay, a chapter or a batch of emails, tick the stopword filter, and your habits are sitting at the top of the table with a number attached. Editors often suggest that if a distinctive word appears more than once every few hundred words, readers will start to notice it too.
The same trick works on other people's text. Paste in survey answers, product reviews or interview transcripts and the top words give you a fast, rough read on the themes before you do any deeper analysis.
Keyword frequency for SEO
SEO writers use frequency counts to sanity-check a page before publishing. There is no magic keyword density that ranks a page, and modern search engines are far more interested in whether a page genuinely covers a topic than in how often one phrase is repeated. But the count is still useful in both directions: if your target keyword barely appears, the page may not signal its subject clearly, and if it is pushing past 3 or 4% of all words the copy almost certainly reads as stuffed and unnatural.
A more productive habit is to look at the whole top 20 rather than one keyword: the list should read like a summary of the topic. If it does not, the page probably drifts, and no amount of keyword repetition will fix that.
Frequently asked questions
How are words counted?
The tool lowercases your text and treats any run of letters, digits and apostrophes as a word, so don't counts once as one word and London and london count as the same word. Punctuation is stripped, and hyphenated words are counted as their separate parts.
What are stopwords?
Stopwords are very common function words such as the, and, of, to, in and that. They dominate almost any frequency list without telling you anything about the text, so ticking the box removes about 50 of them from the results and lets the meaningful words rise to the top.
How is the percentage worked out?
Each word's count is divided by the total number of words in the text and multiplied by 100. The percentage is always based on all words, so it stays the same whether or not stopwords are hidden from the list.
What is this useful for?
Spotting overused words in essays and novels, checking keyword frequency on a web page, trimming repetition from cover letters and speeches, and analysing survey answers or reviews to see which words come up most.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The counting happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you paste leaves your device, and refreshing the page clears it.