Word Frequency Counter
Analyze word frequency in your text. Case-insensitive, punctuation removed.
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What is this tool?
Word frequency counter analyzes text and counts how many times each word appears. The text is lowercased and reduced to the letters a-z and the digits 0-9, then every word is counted and shown in a list sorted by frequency, along with the total and the unique word counts. Useful for content analysis, SEO keyword research, and understanding text patterns.
How to use
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Paste text
Input the text to analyze.
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Analyze
Click Analyze to count the words.
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View results
See word frequency sorted by count.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which characters count as words?
Only letters a-z and digits 0-9. The text is lowercased first and every other character is removed, so punctuation never affects the counts and apostrophes simply drop out of the words being counted. An accented letter, such as the é in café, is also removed, so café is counted as caf. What remains are the alphanumeric runs separated by whitespace, and each one counts as a single word.
How are words defined?
Alphanumeric sequences. Punctuation excluded.
Can I process very large text?
The browser can handle text up to several megabytes. For very large files consider splitting them first.
What is word frequency?
Word frequency is the number of times each word appears in a text. This tool lowercases the text, removes punctuation, counts every word and sorts the result by frequency, and also shows the total and unique word counts.