Introducing the Word Frequency Counter — See What Your Text Is Really About

Paste any text and the Word Frequency Counter tells you immediately which words dominate it. Every word is tokenised, ranked by count, and displayed with an inline bar chart so you can see at a glance what your writing is actually about — not just what you think it is about.

What it does

• Instant tokenisation and frequency ranking — results update the moment you stop typing or paste new content, no submit button needed
• Optional stop word removal — one click removes over 100 common English function words (“the”, “and”, “of”, “is”) so that content words rise to the top of the list
• Bigram and trigram phrase detection — switch to 2-gram or 3-gram mode to see the most frequent two- and three-word phrases, revealing collocations and repeated sentence structures that unigram analysis misses
• Case sensitivity toggle — choose whether “Python” and “python” are counted as the same word or as separate entries
• Minimum word length filter — set a minimum character threshold to exclude short words even if they aren’t on the stop list
• Top-N limit — display the top 10, 25, 50, or 100 most frequent words to focus on what matters
• Inline bar charts — each word in the ranked list has a proportional bar showing its relative frequency, making the distribution immediately visual

For users who want to go further, a Pro upgrade unlocks saved analyses (compare a document’s frequency profile over time as you revise), side-by-side document comparison, and CSV export of the full ranked list.

Why it matters

Writing frequency analysis is one of the fastest ways to spot problems in a draft. If the same word appears 20 times in a 1,000-word article, the list catches it in seconds. If you are targeting a topic keyword that barely registers in your own frequency count, that is a content gap made visible. N-gram analysis catches repeated sentence openers and formulaic phrase patterns that are invisible on a paragraph-by-paragraph read.

SEO professionals use frequency data to audit keyword density — ensuring target terms appear naturally and not so often they trigger over-optimisation signals. NLP practitioners use frequency counts as a first-pass statistical summary before building more complex models. Writers use it as a self-editing tool.

Try it

Word Frequency Counter is free and runs entirely in your browser — no account needed and your text never leaves your device.

For the theory behind frequency analysis — including Zipf’s Law, n-grams, stop word rationale, and how to use frequency data for content auditing — read the word frequency analysis guide.