Word Frequency Counter: See the Words You Overuse

How to use the Word Frequency Counter

1. Paste or type your text into the box — or press Load sample to watch the counter rank the words in a ready-made passage.
2. Set a minimum word length if you want short helper words skipped, and choose how many results to show — top 10, 25, 50 or every word.
3. Tick Case sensitive only if capitalised and lowercase forms of a word should be counted as different words.
4. Read the ranked list in the result box: each line gives the word, its count, and its percentage of all the words counted.
5. Copy the list to keep it with your draft, or download it as a text file — then revise and re-check as often as you like.

About this tool

Repetition is the fastest way to make good writing feel dull — the same word three times in a paragraph quietly drains it. This counter reads your whole text, tallies every distinct word, and ranks the list from most to least used, with each word’s count and its share of the whole, so the words you lean on hardest sit at the top where you cannot miss them. Bloggers and SEO writers use it to sanity-check keyword usage — enough mentions to be clear, never so many that it reads as stuffing. Students use it to spot the verbs and adjectives they repeat in essays and vary them before submitting. Editors and content reviewers use it as a crutch-word finder: every author has favourites they reach for without noticing, and a ranked list exposes them in seconds. The counting rules are simple and predictable. Punctuation is ignored, so “end.” and “end” are the same word; contractions like “don’t” count as one word; numbers count as words too. By default “The” and “the” are the same word — turn on case sensitivity when capitalised forms should be counted separately, and raise the minimum word length to filter out short helper words like “the”, “of” and “and” entirely. Your text is analysed locally in your browser and never leaves your device, so drafts, manuscripts and client copy are safe to paste. Work through the top of the list, swap the most overused words for alternatives, paste the revision back in, and watch the ranking flatten out — a two-minute pass that makes prose feel noticeably fresher.

Worked example

Here is the sample text that comes with the tool, counted with the default settings (minimum length 1, top 50 shown, case ignored): You paste

the cat sat on the mat. The dog sat on the rug. The cat and the dog sat together, and the mat and the rug were warm in the sun.

You get

the — 9 (30.0%)
and — 3 (10.0%)
sat — 3 (10.0%)
cat — 2 (6.7%)
dog — 2 (6.7%)
mat — 2 (6.7%)
on — 2 (6.7%)
rug — 2 (6.7%)
in — 1 (3.3%)
sun — 1 (3.3%)
together — 1 (3.3%)
warm — 1 (3.3%)
were — 1 (3.3%)

The note under the result reads “13 unique words found in 30 words.” — “the” alone accounts for 30% of the text, which is normal for English but shows how fast small words add up. Words with equal counts are listed alphabetically, so the five two-use words appear in A–Z order.

Features

• Ranked word list with exact counts and percentages, updated the moment you type or change an option.
• Minimum word length filter (1–20) to skip tiny helper words and focus on the words that carry meaning.
• Show the top 10, 25 or 50 words, or the complete list — nothing is hidden behind a limit you cannot lift.
• Optional case-sensitive counting for texts where “Apple” the company and “apple” the fruit must stay separate.
• Editor-friendly rules: punctuation is ignored, contractions count as one word, and numbers are counted too.
• Private by design: the analysis runs in your browser, so unpublished drafts never leave your device.