Word Frequency Counter
Count how often each word appears in text
About the Word Frequency Counter
Which words are you leaning on too heavily? Word frequency analysis answers that — and it is the backbone of everything from editing prose to studying a text. This counter reads whatever you paste and builds a ranked table of every word and how often it appears.
It extracts words with a Unicode-aware pattern, lowercases them so "The" and "the" are counted together, and tallies the totals into a sortable table showing each word, its count, and its share of the text as a percentage. A "Ignore common stop words" toggle filters out high-frequency filler like the, and, to, and of, so the words that actually characterize your writing rise to the top. Editors hunting for repetition, students analyzing a passage, and writers checking keyword balance all use it to see their text at a glance.
Click the column headers to re-sort by count or alphabetically, and a summary line reports the total and unique word counts so you can gauge vocabulary variety.
How to Use the Word Frequency Counter
- Paste the text you want to analyze into the box.
- Optionally tick "Ignore common stop words" to hide filler words.
- Read the table of words, counts, and percentages.
- Click the "Word" or "Count" header to change the sort order.
Why Use ToolForge’s Word Frequency Counter
- It reports each word's percentage share and the unique-versus-total word counts, giving you a sense of repetition and vocabulary range, not just raw tallies.
- The stop-word filter strips out grammatical filler so the meaningful, content-carrying words stand out.
- Sortable columns let you flip between "most frequent" and "alphabetical" views of the same data instantly.
- All analysis is done in your browser, so even unpublished drafts stay on your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as a "word" here?
Words are matched as runs of letters, digits, and apostrophes, so contractions like "don't" stay intact. Punctuation and spaces are treated as separators, and everything is lowercased so the same word in different cases is grouped together.
What are stop words and why ignore them?
Stop words are extremely common words — the, and, a, to, of, in — that appear in almost any text and usually carry little meaning on their own. Filtering them out reveals the distinctive words that actually describe your content, which is useful for editing and keyword analysis.
How is the percentage calculated?
Each word's percentage is its count divided by the total number of words in the text (before stop-word filtering), so the figures reflect how much of the whole document that word represents.
How is this different from a keyword density checker?
This is a general text-analysis table for writers and students, with stop-word filtering and sortable columns. A keyword density checker is framed specifically around on-page SEO and target phrases; use that one when you are optimizing a web page for search.
