Word Frequency Counter
Count how often every word appears in a piece of text. Sort by frequency or alphabetically.
Quick answer: Word Frequency Counter: count how often every word appears in a piece of text. Sort by frequency or alphabetically. Runs entirely in your browser, free, no signup.
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A frequency table turns a wall of text into a ranked list of what it is actually about — the fastest way to spot filler words you overuse in your writing, extract candidate keywords from a competitor's page, or gauge the vocabulary level of a document. Tokenization uses Unicode word boundaries, so it handles English, Spanish, French, German, and other Latin-script languages correctly, lowercasing each token so The and the count as one word.
The stop-word toggle is what separates a useful analysis from noise. Without it, the top of the list is always the, a, of, and and — grammatically necessary but meaningless for content analysis. Filtering the ~150 most common English function words pushes the words that actually characterize the text to the top, which is exactly what you want for SEO keyword research or readability review.
A few conventions to keep in mind: numbers like 2026 count as words, hyphenated compounds may split into two tokens depending on the hyphen, and CJK scripts are counted by character rather than by word since those languages don't delimit words with spaces. For those, treat the counts as character frequencies.
Export the table as CSV to chart it in a spreadsheet or feed it into a word cloud. If you just need overall totals rather than a per-word breakdown, the word counter gives you words, characters, and reading time at a glance.
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as a 'word'?
- Any maximal run of Unicode letters and digits, lowercased. Punctuation and whitespace separate words; numbers like <code>2026</code> are counted as a word.
- Are stop words removed?
- Optional — toggle 'ignore common stop words' to filter out the top ~150 English function words (the, a, of, and, etc.). Useful for keyword analysis on prose.
- How big a text can I analyse?
- Up to a few megabytes of text runs in well under a second. Above that it stays responsive but the table grows large enough that scrolling matters more than counting time.
- Is my text uploaded?
- No — counting runs entirely in your browser.
- Can I export the result as CSV?
- Yes — the table has a 'download CSV' button so you can paste into Excel for further analysis.