Word frequency
Paste your text and find out which words you use most often, with counts and percentages. You can filter out articles and prepositions to see only the words that matter.
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What word frequency analysis is good for
Seeing which words appear most often helps in plenty of real situations. Writers and students spot the repetitions they should swap for a synonym; SEO specialists check that a keyword shows up often enough without overdoing it (keyword stuffing gets penalized); language learners discover the core vocabulary of a passage; and anyone preparing a speech can make sure they aren't leaning on the same terms over and over. The percentage next to each count tells you how much "weight" every word carries in the text as a whole.
Why exclude common words
In almost any English text the most frequent words are articles, prepositions and conjunctions: "the", "of", "and", "to" top every list yet say nothing about the content. Filtering them out (linguists call them "stop words") lets the truly meaningful words emerge, the nouns, verbs and adjectives that give your text its character. The minimum-length filter serves the same purpose: raise it to 4 or 5 letters to focus only on the richest, most distinctive terms.
How words and percentages are counted
Words are counted as in the site's other counters: a piece between two spaces that contains at least one letter or digit, with an apostrophe before a vowel splitting it (Italian «dell'anno» gives «dell» and «anno») and a short hyphen joining («e-mail» is a single entry); by the same rule «D'Amico» and «O'Hara» give two entries, «O'Neill» one. Every word enters the table in lowercase and without the punctuation stuck to its edges, so «House», «house» and «house,» are the same entry, and numbers are entries too.
The total, the number of different words and the percentages are worked out on all the words of the text, before the filters: excluding common words or raising the minimum length removes rows from the table, but doesn't change how much a word weighs in the text you wrote. Words with the same count are in alphabetical order, following the language of the page, and the table shows the first 50.
Nearby tools
The same rule is used by Word counter, Reading time, Editorial pages and Unique words: the same text gives the same total on all five pages, and the different words here are the same ones as in the list of Unique words.