Word Frequency Counter

Word Frequency Counter

Use this free Word Frequency Counter to find how often each word appears in your text. Paste or type your text above to see each unique word and its number of occurrences, along with the total number of words and unique words.

The tool ignores capitalization when comparing words and removes common punctuation, making it easier to analyze repeated words in a passage.

How to Count Word Frequency

To check word frequency:

1. Type or paste your text into the input box.
2. The Word Frequency Counter analyzes the text automatically.
3. Review each word and the number of times it appears.
4. Check the total words and unique words.
5. Copy or download the result if needed.

Words that occur most often appear at the top of the results.

What Is Word Frequency?

Word frequency measures how many times a particular word occurs in a piece of text.

For example:

Text: apple banana apple orange apple

The results include:

apple: 3
banana: 1
orange: 1

This makes repeated words easy to identify without searching through the text manually.

Does Capitalization Affect Word Frequency?

The counter treats uppercase and lowercase versions of the same word as one word.

For example:

Apple apple APPLE

is counted as:

apple: 3

This prevents capitalization differences from creating separate frequency entries.

How Does the Counter Handle Punctuation?

Common punctuation attached to words is removed when the text is analyzed.

For example:

hello, hello!, and hello?

can be counted together as occurrences of the same word.

This is useful when analyzing normal sentences where words frequently appear next to commas, periods, question marks, and other punctuation.

Total Words and Unique Words

The tool also shows Total words and Unique words.

If your text contains:

red blue red green blue

the result contains 5 total words and 3 unique words.

Total words measures all detected words, while unique words measures how many different words appear.

For a general word count and additional text statistics, use the Word Counter:

Word Frequency vs. Character Frequency

Word frequency counts repeated words, while character frequency measures repeated characters.

For example, a Word Frequency Counter can tell you how often the word text appears, while a Character Frequency Counter can analyze how frequently individual characters occur.

For character-level analysis, use the Character Frequency Counter.

Word Frequency vs. Most Frequent Words

A word frequency analysis shows how often words occur throughout a passage. It can help identify repetition and the vocabulary used most often in the text.

If you want to explore your existing Most Frequent Words tool as well, use it for a focused view of frequently occurring words.

Add the internal link to your existing Most Frequent Words page.

When Is a Word Frequency Counter Useful?

A Word Frequency Counter can be useful for analyzing articles, essays, reports, drafts, transcripts, and other text.

It can help you spot repeated vocabulary, compare common words, review word usage, or quickly see which words occur most often.

Private Browser-Based Word Frequency Counter

The Word Frequency Counter works directly in your browser. You don’t need to create an account or upload a document.