Word Frequency Counter
This tool breaks your text down into individual words, counts how many times each one appears, and lists them from most to least common — each entry shows the word, its raw count, and what share of the whole text it makes up. Unlike some of this site's other word-analysis tools, nothing is filtered out here: common connector words like "the" and "and" are counted right alongside everything else, since they're often exactly what you need to see when auditing keyword usage or checking for over-repeated terms.
Counting is case-insensitive ("The" and "the" count as the same word), and there's no limit on how many unique words are listed — a document with hundreds of distinct words gets hundreds of rows.
How words are split
A word is any run of Latin letters, digits, or underscores — so word_count
and word2vec each stay as one word, but an apostrophe or hyphen breaks a word
in two: "don't" is counted as "don" and "t", and "well-known" is counted as "well" and
"known". Accented letters and other non-Latin characters aren't recognized as word
characters either, so text outside English or other Latin-script languages may split in
places you don't expect.
What is keyword density, and does it matter for SEO?
Keyword density is a word's percentage share of the total word count — exactly the number shown next to each word here. It's calculated as (times the word appears ÷ total word count) × 100, so a word appearing 8 times in a 400-word page has a density of 2%. Most SEO guides suggest keeping a primary keyword's density in a loose 1–2% range, but search engines don't use density as a direct ranking signal, and an unnaturally high density can read as keyword stuffing. Write for the topic naturally and a reasonable density tends to follow on its own.
What text works best?
Anything with real sentence structure — articles, essays, transcripts, product descriptions, competitor page copy — gives a more useful breakdown than something short or repetitive. For a visual rather than numeric view of the same data, try the Word Cloud Generator. If you specifically want to find words you've repeated too often rather than a full breakdown of every word, the Duplicate Word Finder is built for exactly that and lets you set a repetition threshold and optionally ignore stop words.
Related tools
- Word Cloud Generator — visualize the same frequency data as a downloadable image.
- Duplicate Word Finder — find only the words you've overused, with a repetition threshold.
- Online Sentence Counter — character, word, sentence, and line counts for the same text.
- Sort Words Alphabetically — sort a list of words or lines A to Z.
Last reviewed: August 2026