The Word Frequency Counter shows how often each word appears in your text, ranked from most to least common. Paste any text — an article, essay, transcript, or product copy — and get a sorted list of words with their counts and percentages.
It is useful for spotting repetition, checking keyword density for SEO, and analysing writing style. Options let you ignore case, exclude common filler words, and set a minimum word length. Everything runs in your browser.
How to count word frequency
- Paste your text into the box.
- Adjust the options — ignore case, exclude common words, or set a minimum length.
- See the ranked list of words with counts and percentages.
- Copy the results (word and count, tab-separated) for a spreadsheet.
Reading the results
Each row shows a word, how many times it appears, and what percentage of the counted words that represents. Words are ranked by frequency, with ties broken alphabetically. The header shows the number of unique words and the total counted. By default matching ignores case, so “The” and “the” are counted together; turn that off to treat them separately.
Keyword density and filler words
For SEO, word frequency is a quick way to check keyword density — how often your target terms appear relative to the whole text — without over-optimising. Turn on “Exclude common words” to hide high-frequency filler like “the”, “and”, and “to” so the meaningful terms rise to the top, and use the minimum length option to ignore very short words. The result reflects your real content, computed privately in your browser.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I count how many times a word appears?
Paste your text and the tool lists every word with its count, ranked by frequency. Use the copy button to export the full list.
Can it ignore common words like “the” and “and”?
Yes. Enable “Exclude common words” to filter out frequent filler words so your meaningful terms stand out.
Is this useful for SEO keyword density?
Yes — it shows how often each term appears and its percentage of the text, which is a simple way to gauge keyword density.
Does it treat “Word” and “word” as the same?
By default yes, because “Ignore case” is on. Turn it off to count different capitalisations separately.