Word Frequency Counter
Count how often every word appears, with keyword density.
Counting words
Paste text and get every word's count and density โ its share of the total โ ranked with bars, with totals for words and unique words above. The common-word filter hides English's scaffolding (the, and, ofโฆ) so the list shows the words carrying your subject; the length filter cuts short words; and the CSV button exports the table for a spreadsheet.
What the distribution tells you
Natural English is astonishingly top-heavy: "the" alone is typically 5โ7% of any text, and the hundred commonest words cover about half of everything written โ Zipf's law in action. That is why raw counts are dull and the filtered list is the interesting one.
Writers use it to catch crutch words โ "actually", "just", "very" repeated past noticing โ and editors to spot when a term drifts ("customer" in one section, "client" in the next). For SEO, keyword density was never a magic ratio and modern engines read topics rather than percentages, but the table still answers a real question: does the draft mention its subject as often as you assumed? Full statistics โ characters, sentences, reading time โ live in the word counter, and text compare shows what changed between drafts.
Frequently asked questions
What is keyword density?
A word's share of the total, shown in the Density column. There is no magic percentage for SEO โ the table is for noticing repetition and coverage, not hitting ratios.
Why hide common words?
Because "the", "and" and friends dominate every English text โ about half of all running words are the top hundred. Hiding them reveals the words specific to your subject.
Does it count hyphenated words and apostrophes?
"Well-known" counts as one word, and "don't" keeps its apostrophe. Case is ignored, so The and the merge.
Can I export the counts?
Yes โ copy as CSV and paste straight into a spreadsheet, word and count per row.