Word Frequency Counter

How to use

1. 1Paste any text into the input area on the left, or click Load sample to try the tool with a worked example.
2. 2Pick tokenization options on the right: turn case sensitive on to keep Apple and apple separate, turn include numbers off to skip pure-digit tokens, set a minimum word length to ignore short connectors, and set a minimum occurrences threshold to hide one-off words.
3. 3Toggle Remove common stopwords to drop function words like the, and, and of, then optionally paste extra stopwords (separated by spaces or commas) to remove brand names, boilerplate, or repeated headers.
4. 4Use the Find a word search box to filter the table down to one specific word and confirm how many times it appears.
5. 5Sort by count, alphabet, or word length in either direction, and click Copy CSV or Copy plain text to export the full filtered word frequency list.

About this tool

Word Frequency Counter shows exactly how often each word appears in a piece of text. Paste an essay, a transcript, a chapter, a marketing draft, an email thread, a research excerpt, or any block of prose, and the tool tokenizes the input into words, builds a complete count of every unique word, and renders a sortable, filterable, exportable table with one row per word. Tokenization uses Unicode-aware letter and number classes, so non-English text (accented Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, CJK runs) tokenizes cleanly, and apostrophes inside words are kept so contractions like don't, it's, and you're are counted as one word rather than split. Curly and straight apostrophes are normalized to the same character so the same contraction does not appear twice in the table. Five tokenization and filter controls let you focus on the words that matter: case sensitive merges or splits Apple and apple, include numbers keeps or drops pure-digit tokens like 2024, minimum word length skips short connectors when you do not want them in the table, minimum occurrences hides one-off words when you only care about repeated ones, and a stopwords toggle removes the standard English list of high-frequency function words (the, and, of, to, a, is, in) plus any extra stopwords you paste into the custom field. A live find-a-word search filters the table by substring match so you can confirm whether a single specific word appears at all and how many times. The output table sorts by count, alphabet, or word length in either direction, shows each word with its raw count, its share of the filtered total as a percentage, a relative bar, and a Copy button, and offers one-click export of the full filtered list as CSV (Word, Count, Percent) or as plain text (aligned word + count columns) ready for a word cloud, a vocabulary list, a stylometric analysis, or a spreadsheet pivot. Live distribution stats show total words, unique words, words counted after filters, hapax legomena (words that appear exactly once, often a marker of vocabulary breadth), words appearing twice or more, average word length, and the longest word. Useful for writers reducing accidental repetition, students preparing reading-level reports, teachers building vocabulary lists, editors checking author voice, translators looking for term consistency, journalists analyzing speeches and transcripts, researchers running quick text-mining sanity checks, and SEO writers auditing on-page word usage. Everything runs locally on your device, so the drafts, transcripts, and notes you paste here never leave your browser.

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