Word Frequency Counter

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. Text is lowercased and split with a Unicode-aware word pattern.

Word Frequency Counter examples

InputOutput
the cat and the hat and the batthe: 3, and: 2, cat: 1, hat: 1, bat: 1

How the word frequency counter works

  1. Text is lowercased and split into Unicode-aware words.
  2. Occurrences are tallied and sorted from most to least frequent.
  3. 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.