Word frequency counter
Count how often each word appears and rank them from most to least frequent. Skip short words or common stop words, and keep just the top N. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
About this tool
The word frequency counter tallies how often each word appears in your text and ranks the results from most to least common. It is handy for spotting filler words in an essay, checking keyword density in web copy, finding the dominant terms in a transcript, or just getting a quick feel for what a document is about.
Each row of the output is the count, the percentage of all counted words (its keyword density), and the word, most frequent first. Ties keep the order in which the words first appeared, so the result is fully deterministic.
Options
- Case sensitive — off by default, so
Theandtheare grouped together (the first casing seen is shown). Turn it on to count each casing separately. - Minimum word length — skip words shorter than this many characters, an easy way to drop one- and two-letter noise.
- Ignore common stop words — drop frequent English filler words such as the, and, of, and to so the meaningful terms rise to the top.
- Top N — keep only the N most frequent words (leave it at 0 to list every distinct word).
How words are detected
A word is a run of letters or digits, with interior apostrophes preserved so contractions like don't and possessives like it's stay intact. Every other character — spaces, punctuation, line breaks — separates words. Accented and non-Latin letters are counted too.
Everything runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Your text is never uploaded to a server.
FAQ
Is "don't" counted as one word or two?
One. An apostrophe between two word characters — straight ' or curly ’ —
is kept inside the token, so don't, it's, and o'clock each count as a
single word. A leading or trailing apostrophe (as in 'quoted') is treated as
punctuation and stripped.
Does it work on text that isn't English?
Counting does — tokenization is Unicode-aware, so accented and non-Latin words (café, naïve, 東京) are tallied correctly. The stop-word list is English only, though: turning on Ignore common stop words won't drop le, der, or и, so for other languages combine it with Minimum word length instead.
Two words have the same count — which comes first?
The one that appeared first in your text. Ties always keep first-seen order, so running the same input twice gives byte-identical output — handy when you diff results.
Which casing is shown when "Case sensitive" is off?
The first casing that occurs in the text. If your document starts a sentence
with The, the merged row for the/The/THE displays as The — the counts and
percentages are unaffected, only the label.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool word-frequency "Paste your text here…"New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/word-frequency/?text=Paste%20your%20text%20here%E2%80%A6&case_sensitive=true&min_length=1&ignore_stopwords=true&top=0Machine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.