See which words appear most often in any text — useful for SEO, content audits and research.
Count and rank the most frequent words in any text. Free tool for SEO and writing analysis.
Word Frequency Counter examples
Input
Output
the cat and the hat and the bat
the: 3, and: 2, cat: 1, hat: 1, bat: 1
How the word frequency counter works
Text is lowercased and split into Unicode-aware words.
Occurrences are tallied and sorted from most to least frequent.
Accented and non-Latin words are counted, not discarded.
Rules and edge cases
Text is lowercased and split with a Unicode-aware word pattern, so accented and non-Latin words are counted rather than discarded.
Occurrences are tallied and ranked from most to least frequent.
Common stop words such as the and and rise to the top; read past them to find the terms that actually characterise the text.
Frequently asked questions
What is a healthy keyword density?
There is no target to hit. If a term appears far more often than the words around it, the copy usually reads as stuffed — write naturally and use the count as a check, not a goal.
Are different word forms counted together?
No. run, runs and running are counted separately because no stemming is applied, which keeps the counts literal and predictable.