Free Word Frequency Counter
Count the occurrence of every word in your text. Sort by frequency or alphabetically, filter stop words, search specific terms and export the full table as CSV.
Full Frequency Table
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About the Word Frequency Counter
A word frequency counter analyses a body of text and tallies how many times each unique word appears. It is a fundamental text analysis technique used in natural language processing, linguistics, content auditing, and SEO analysis.
For content creators and SEO professionals, word frequency analysis helps you understand which words dominate your text, identify unintentional repetition, and verify that your target keywords appear with appropriate prominence. Combined with the Keyword Density Checker, it gives you a comprehensive picture of your content's keyword profile.
How to Use the Word Frequency Counter
Paste Your Text
Copy your article, blog post or any document text and paste it into the input area. HTML tags are automatically stripped.
Set Options
Choose whether to filter common stop words, toggle case-sensitivity and set a minimum word character length to ignore very short words.
Count Frequency
Click "Count Word Frequency" to see total stats, a visual word cloud of the top 40 words and a sortable frequency table.
Sort, Filter & Export
Click any column header to sort. Use the search box to find specific words. Export the full table as CSV for spreadsheet analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
In SEO, word frequency analysis helps content writers verify that their primary and secondary keywords appear with sufficient frequency, identify overused terms that may indicate keyword stuffing, discover semantic (LSI) keywords that naturally appear alongside your main topic, and compare your word profile against competitor pages that rank well for your target keywords.
Word frequency is the raw count of how many times a word appears. Keyword density is the frequency expressed as a percentage of the total word count. Both metrics are complementary: frequency tells you the absolute count, while density contextualises it relative to the length of your content. Use Keyword Density Checker to see both together.
The frequency counting works on any text and will correctly count word occurrences. However, the stop-word filter currently only supports English stop words. For non-English text, disable the stop-word filter for accurate results. Tokenisation (word splitting) works for all Latin-alphabet languages; CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text may not split correctly as it uses character-based rather than space-based tokenisation.
The tool runs entirely in your browser and can comfortably handle texts up to several hundred thousand words. Very large texts (1M+ words) may cause a brief pause as the JavaScript processes the frequency map. All processing happens locally — your text never leaves your device.