Paste an article, essay, transcript or block of copy and this tool lists every distinct word with how many times it appears and what share of the text it makes up, ranked from most to least frequent. Everything is computed in your browser as you type — nothing is uploaded.
Paste some text to see how often each word appears.
How it works
The text is split into words at every character that is not a letter or a digit, so spaces, line breaks and punctuation all act as separators. A hyphenated string like "well-known" therefore counts as two words, "well" and "known", and trailing commas or full stops are dropped. Letters from any alphabet are kept, including Serbian diacritics such as č, ć, ž, š and đ, so "čaša" stays a single word rather than being cut at the accent.
By default matching ignores case, so "The", "the" and "THE" are counted together and shown in lowercase; turn that off to treat different capitalisations as separate words. Each word’s percentage is its count divided by the total number of counted words, so all percentages add up to 100. Results are ranked by count, and words that tie are ordered alphabetically so the list is stable. The on-screen table shows the top 50; the copy button gives you the complete ranking.
Practical examples
Finding filler in an essay
Paste a 500-word essay and you might see "the" at 34 (6.8%), "of" at 21, "and" at 18. Spotting that "very" appears 12 times tells you exactly which crutch word to trim.
Checking keyword use on a page
For a product description of 240 words, the tool might show your target phrase’s main word appearing 9 times — about 3.75% — helping you judge whether it reads naturally or looks stuffed.
Case-sensitive brand check
Turn off case grouping and "iPhone", "Iphone" and "iphone" are listed separately, so you can see 14 correct spellings against 3 that need fixing.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a word?
Any unbroken run of letters or digits. The moment a space, line break, comma, period, quote or other symbol appears, the word ends. Numbers like "2026" and mixed tokens like "mp3" are counted as words too.
How is the percentage calculated?
It is a word’s count divided by the total number of counted words, times 100. Because every counted word contributes, the percentages across the whole list add up to 100%.
What does case-insensitive mean here?
With it on (the default), words are grouped no matter how they are capitalised, and shown in lowercase — so "Cat", "cat" and "CAT" become one entry. Switch it off to count each capitalisation separately.
Does it remove common words like "the" and "and"?
No. Every word is counted, including short function words, which usually top the list. If you want to focus on content words, ignore the first few rows or copy the list and filter it in a spreadsheet.
How is punctuation handled?
Punctuation is treated purely as a separator and never becomes part of a word. "don't" is split into "don" and "t", and "e-mail" into "e" and "mail", because the apostrophe and hyphen break the run of letters.
Does it work with Serbian text?
Yes. The diacritic letters č, ć, ž, š and đ are treated as ordinary letters, so words that use them stay intact and group correctly whether written in upper or lower case.
How are ties in count broken?
Words with the same count are ordered alphabetically. That keeps the ranking predictable, so re-running the same text always produces the same order.
Why does the table stop at 50 words?
The on-screen list is capped at the 50 most frequent words to stay readable. When there are more, a note shows how many are hidden, and the copy button always exports the full ranking.
What format does the copy button use?
It copies one line per word as the word, a tab, then its count. That pastes cleanly into two columns in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc.
Can it handle a very long text?
Yes. Counting is a single pass over the text and runs comfortably on documents of many thousands of words directly in the browser, with no size limit imposed by a server.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. All processing happens locally in your browser. The text you paste never leaves your device and nothing is stored after you close the page.
Is this the same as keyword density?
It is the raw material for it. Keyword density is usually the percentage share of a chosen word or phrase, and this tool gives you exactly those counts and percentages for every word so you can read the density off directly.
Do numbers count as words?
Yes. A standalone number like "42" is a word, and so is a mixed token like "h2o". If you only want alphabetic words, remove the numbers from your text before pasting.
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