Analyze word usage and find the most common words in your text. Perfect for SEO keyword density analysis.
Ever wonder which words you use most in your writing? Or need to check keyword density before publishing an SEO article? This free Word Frequency Counter analyzes any text and shows you exactly how often each word appears, ranked from most to least frequent. It's a powerful tool for writers, SEO specialists, researchers, and anyone who wants to understand the patterns in their text.
A word frequency counter scans a body of text and tallies how many times each unique word appears. The results are displayed in a ranked table showing each word, its occurrence count, and its percentage of the total word count. This gives you a clear, data-driven view of your writing's vocabulary distribution — which words dominate, which are used sparingly, and whether your keyword usage is balanced or over-concentrated.
This kind of analysis is used across many fields. SEO professionals use it to check keyword density and ensure a target keyword appears at the right frequency without over-optimization. Writers use it to spot repetitive language and diversify their vocabulary. Researchers use it to identify key themes and terminology in large documents. Translators use it to build glossaries of frequently used terms.
This tool goes beyond a simple count. It lets you filter out common stop words (like "the", "and", "is") so you can focus on meaningful content words. You can set a minimum word length to exclude short filler words, toggle case sensitivity for precise analysis, sort results by any column, and export the full frequency table as a CSV file for use in spreadsheets or further analysis.
For SEO analysis, always enable the "Ignore common words" filter. Stop words like "the", "and", "of", and "in" will always dominate any text and aren't relevant to keyword density. With the filter on, the results will surface your actual content keywords — the terms that matter for search engine optimization. A keyword density of 1–2% is generally considered healthy; anything above 3–4% may be flagged as keyword stuffing.
Use the minimum word length filter to further refine results. Setting it to 4 or 5 characters eliminates short words that often slip through the stop word filter (like "also", "just", "very") and keeps the focus on substantive vocabulary. For technical or academic writing, a minimum length of 5–6 characters often produces the most meaningful frequency data.
The CSV export is particularly useful when you need to do deeper analysis. Import the file into Google Sheets or Excel to create charts, apply conditional formatting, or compare frequency data across multiple documents. This is especially handy for content audits, where you might want to compare keyword usage across several pages of a website at once.
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It counts how many times each unique word appears in your text and ranks them from most to least frequent. This reveals the key topics and themes in a piece of writing, helps identify overused words, and is useful for SEO keyword density analysis.
By default, the analysis is case-insensitive — 'The' and 'the' are counted as the same word. You can toggle case-sensitive mode if you need to distinguish between capitalized and lowercase versions.
Yes. Enable the stop words filter to exclude common words like 'the', 'a', 'is', 'in', etc. This reveals the meaningful content words in your text. Stop word filtering is essential for useful keyword analysis.
Word frequency counts whole words. Character frequency counts individual letters and symbols. Use word frequency to find key topics and repeated phrases; use character frequency for cryptanalysis or detailed text composition analysis.
Yes. Paste your page content and check the frequency of your target keywords. A keyword density of 1-2% is generally considered natural. Higher density may be seen as keyword stuffing by search engines. This tool helps you find the right balance.