Word Frequency Counter

Type or paste your text on the left and a report of the most used words along with their usage count will appear on the right. The tool scans your input and calculates how often each word appears, displaying the results in a ranked list showing each unique word alongside its frequency count. Counting is case-insensitive, so "The" and "the" are treated as the same word, and contractions such as "don't" count as one word. Words are detected in any alphabet, including accented Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. Languages written without spaces between words, such as Chinese and Japanese, are counted by runs of characters rather than by word. In the settings you can count 2-word or 3-word phrases instead of single words, set a minimum word length, and exclude common English words.

Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. In the context of search engine optimization, keyword density is an important factor in determining the relevance of a page to a particular search query. By analyzing the keyword density of your content, you can optimize your website for specific keywords and improve your search engine rankings.

Keyword density is calculated by dividing the number of times a keyword appears on a page by the total number of words on the page, and then multiplying the result by 100. For example, if a keyword appears 10 times on a page with 1000 words, the keyword density would be 1%.

To measure keyword density, simply paste your content into the text box and our tool will automatically calculate the keyword density for you. For a visual representation of the same data, try the Word Cloud Generator, which displays your most frequent words as a downloadable image.

Keyword density is calculated as: (number of times the keyword appears / total word count) x 100. A keyword appearing 8 times in a 400-word article has a density of 2%.

Google has repeatedly stated it does not use a keyword density threshold as a direct ranking signal. A high keyword density does not guarantee ranking; an unnaturally high density (sometimes called "keyword stuffing") can trigger a quality penalty. In practice, well-written content focused on a topic naturally achieves appropriate keyword density without deliberate management.

More useful than raw density is TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency), which compares how often a term appears in your page against how often it appears across the wider web. A high TF-IDF score for a term means it is unusually prominent in your content compared to the average page, a stronger signal of topical relevance than density alone.

Identifying overused words - Paste a draft article and sort by frequency descending. If "however", "therefore", or a specific noun appears 15+ times in a 600-word piece, it likely reads repetitively. Use a thesaurus or restructure sentences to reduce repetition.

Confirming keyword coverage - If you are writing content targeting a specific keyword, use the frequency counter to confirm the keyword and its close variants appear a reasonable number of times across the piece.

Stop words - Common words like "the", "and", "is", "of" will dominate any frequency list. Turn on "Exclude common words" in the settings to leave them out and see the content-bearing words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) that show your text's themes.

By default, yes: every word is counted, including stop words such as the, and, is, and of. Turn on "Exclude common words" in the settings to hide about 130 common English function words (articles, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions). Excluded words still count toward the total, so the density of the remaining words does not change. When counting phrases, a phrase that starts or ends with a common word is left out, while one with a common word in the middle, such as "cup of tea", is kept.

There is no universally correct number. Most SEO practitioners aim for 1-2% for a primary keyword as a rough guide, but Google does not use density as a direct ranking signal. Write naturally for the topic and let frequency arise organically.

Yes. Paste a competitor's page text (copy and paste the visible text from their page) and analyze which words and phrases appear most frequently. Set the phrase length to 2 or 3 words to see the multi-word keywords a page repeats. This gives a rough picture of their topical focus and keyword emphasis.

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