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Word Frequency Counter

Count how often every word appears in your text with the free word frequency counter. It produces a table of word frequency instantly and privately in your browser.

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What is Word Frequency Counter?

A word frequency counter reads a block of text and calculates how many times each distinct word appears. It lowercases the input, splits it into words and counts identical ones together, then presents the result as a table of words and counts. This simple number is surprisingly revealing. Writers use it to spot words they overuse and to tighten their prose. SEO and content specialists use it to check keyword density and to see whether a target term appears naturally or is being stuffed. Researchers and students use it to study an author's vocabulary, and analysts use it to surface the topics a document keeps returning to. Because it matches words case-insensitively, “The” and “the” count as the same word, so the table reflects how the text is really used. Everything runs in your browser, so you can analyse sensitive documents without uploading them. You can use the counts to compare two versions of a piece of writing, to find which terms are doing the work, and to decide where to cut or repeat a phrase.

How to use Word Frequency Counter

Paste or type your text into the input box.
Click “Count Frequencies” to build the frequency table.
Read the table, which lists every word with how many times it appears.
Sort or scan the counts, then copy what you need.

Example

Input: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog the Output: the — 3 brown — 1 dog — 1 fox — 1 jumps — 1 lazy — 1 over — 1 quick — 1 The appears three times in this example; every other word appears once.

Who is this word frequency counter for?

A word frequency counter lists how often each word appears in your text and shows keyword density. Writers and marketers use it before publishing.

Writers: spot overused words and filler to tighten your prose and avoid repeating the same phrase.
Students: analyse the vocabulary of an essay, passage or speech for a language assignment.
SEO professionals: check keyword density and the most common terms in an article before you publish.

Keyword density chart

In a 1,000-word article, this is the percentage density each occurrence of a term creates:

Times the term appears	Density
1	0.10%
5	0.50%
10	1.00%
15	1.50%
20	2.00%
25	2.50%

Common use cases

Spotting overused words and filler to tighten your writing.
Checking keyword density in an article before you publish it.
Studying the vocabulary of a text, speech or author for analysis.
Finding the most common terms in a document, transcript or dataset.

Pro tips

The count is case-insensitive, so uppercase and lowercase forms are merged.
Common words like “the” and “and” usually top the list — filter them to find your content keywords.
For a cleaner picture, paste only the body of your text, not headings and boilerplate.

FAQ

How is a word counted?

Text is lowercased and split into words; identical words are counted together and shown in a frequency table.

Is the count case-sensitive?

No. Words are matched case-insensitively, so “The” and “the” count as the same word.

What does the output show?

A table of each distinct word with the number of times it appears.

Does it include punctuation?

No. Words are split on non-alphanumeric characters, so punctuation is not counted as part of a word.

Can I see how many unique words there are?

Yes. The total row shows both the word count and the number of unique words.

Is it useful for keyword density?

Yes. It shows how often a target term appears so you can check your keyword use.