📝 Word Frequency Counter — Most Used Words
Paste an essay, article, or notes and see which words dominate. Case can be ignored, and short tokens can be filtered out before the ranking.
How it works
- Paste the text you want to inspect. Punctuation is separated from words automatically.
- Choose whether uppercase and lowercase should count as the same word, and set a minimum length.
- Press Count words to get a frequency table sorted from most common to least common.
Examples
- In “The cat sat on the mat. The cat sat.” the word the appears twice when case is ignored.
- Set minimum length to 4 to skip short function words while reviewing a draft.
- Writers use the ranking to spot repeated words before editing.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a word?
Runs of letters and numbers are counted. Punctuation and extra spaces are ignored, so “mat.” and “mat” match.
Does ignore case affect accented letters?
Yes. Matching uses Unicode-aware lowercasing, so accented letters stay intact and compare case-insensitively.
Is my writing sent to a server?
No. Counting happens locally in the page, and the text is not stored by ToolNova.
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