Word Frequency Counter
Paste your text — see your top 20 most frequently used words, ranked live as you type.
Top 20 words
Word Frequency Counter — Find Your Most-Used Words
This word frequency counter ranks the top 20 most-used words in your text, updating live as you type or paste. Useful for spotting repetitive phrasing, checking keyword usage, or analyzing writing style.
Focused specifically on SEO density instead? The keyword density checker shows the same data framed around percentage density.
Why word frequency analysis is useful
- Editing & style — writers often unconsciously overuse certain words. A frequency count surfaces repetition that's easy to miss while writing.
- SEO content review — confirms your target keywords actually appear with meaningful frequency, and flags accidental over-repetition.
- Text & corpus analysis — students and researchers use word frequency as a basic tool for analyzing themes in a document or speech.
- Speech & script writing — catch filler words or repeated phrases before delivering a presentation.
How this word frequency counter works
The tool counts occurrences of each word (case-insensitive), excludes common stop words (like "the", "and", "of"), and ranks the top 20 by frequency, with a percentage share of your total word count shown next to each.
All counting runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server. See also: word counter · FAQ.
Frequently Asked Questions
The top 20 most frequently used words in your pasted text, ranked from highest to lowest count, each with an occurrence count and percentage share of your total word count.
No — stop words (common function words like “the”, “and”, “is”, “to”) are automatically excluded, so the list reflects meaningful, topic-relevant vocabulary rather than the words that are simply most common in English.
Yes — pasting a draft and checking the top words is a quick way to spot words you've unintentionally overused, which is useful during editing and revision passes.
No — the counter treats words case-insensitively, so “Word”, “word”, and “WORD” are all counted as the same word.