See how many times each word appears in your text, sorted from most to least frequent. Useful for spotting overused words while editing, checking keyword repetition before publishing, or scanning pasted text like reviews or survey responses for recurring patterns.
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How do you use the word frequency counter tool?
1. Add your text. Paste it directly, upload a file, or drop a TXT/CSV/JSON file onto the input box.
2. Adjust the options. Toggle case sensitivity and whether to exclude common stop words.
3. Copy or download the result. Your word: count list is ready instantly, with nothing ever sent to a server.
Want overall totals instead of a per-word breakdown? Try Count Words.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as a "word" here?
Any run of letters, numbers, apostrophes, or hyphens - so "don't" and "well-known" each count as one word, while punctuation like periods and commas is ignored and doesn't split or attach to a word.
What are stop words, and why are they excluded by default?
Stop words are common words like "the," "a," "and," and "of" that appear constantly in almost any text but rarely tell you anything useful about its content. With stop words excluded (the default), the results surface the words that actually characterize your text instead of being dominated by a handful of common connectors. Turn the option off if you want a literal count of every word, stop words included.
How are ties broken when two words have the same count?
Words with equal counts are sorted alphabetically, so the results stay consistent and predictable rather than depending on where each word first appeared in your text.
How is this different from Count Words?
Count Words reports aggregate totals - the overall word count, character count, and sentence count for your text. Word Frequency Counter reports a per-word breakdown instead: exactly how many times each individual word appears, ranked from most to least common.