Word Frequency Counter
Count how often every word or phrase appears in your text, ranked from most to least frequent, with stop-word filtering, phrase mode and percentages.
A word frequency counter lists every word in a text with the number of times it appears, most common first. Writers use it to catch words they lean on too often, students to check repetition in an essay, and SEO editors to see which terms a page really emphasises. You can ignore common words such as "the" and "and", count two- or three-word phrases instead of single words, and set a minimum word length.
How to use this tool
- Paste your text into the box.
- Choose single words, 2-word phrases or 3-word phrases.
- Keep Ignore common words ticked to hide stop words such as the, of and is.
- Read the ranked table: each word, its count and its share of all counted words.
Formula
Share (%) = times the word appears ÷ words counted × 100
"Words counted" is the total left after your filters (common words, numbers, minimum length). Lexical diversity is unique words ÷ words counted × 100, a rough measure of how varied the vocabulary is. Matching ignores capital letters unless you tick Case sensitive, and an apostrophe or hyphen inside a word (don't, well-known) keeps it as one word.
Example
The sample text about cold brew has 89 words. With common words ignored, 57 words are counted and 41 of them are different. water comes first with 5 appearances, a share of 5 ÷ 57 × 100 = 8.77%, followed by coffee and cold with 4 each (7.02%) and brew with 3 (5.26%). Switch to 2-word phrases and cold brew tops the list with 3 of the 32 phrases counted (9.38%).
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a word?
A run of letters or digits, allowing an apostrophe or hyphen inside it. Punctuation is ignored, so "coffee," and "Coffee" count as the same word. Numbers such as 12 are skipped unless you tick Count numbers as words.
Which common words are ignored?
About 170 very frequent English words: articles (a, the), pronouns (I, you, they), forms of be, have and do, prepositions (of, in, for), conjunctions and their contractions. The list is English only, so text in other languages is counted in full.
How are phrases counted?
Phrases use overlapping windows, bounded by line breaks and common sentence punctuation. This is a punctuation heuristic, not a language parser. With common words ignored, a phrase that starts or ends with one is skipped. That removes fragments like "of the" but keeps "part coffee".
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Counting happens in your browser and the text never leaves your device.
Last updated: 2026-10-30