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Word Frequency Counter: Count Words and Characters

This free word frequency counter shows how often every word and every character appears in your text. You get the top results with counts and percentages, so you can spot repeated words and common letters at once.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

What Is a Word Frequency Counter?

A word frequency counter tells you how often each word appears in a text. A character frequency counter does the same for individual letters and symbols. Together they give a quick picture of a text: which words carry the topic, which ones you repeat too often and which characters are most common.

This word frequency counter shows both views at once. It lists the top results with their counts and percentages, so patterns are easy to see.

How to Use This Word Frequency Counter

  1. Paste your text into the box.
  2. Choose to count words, characters or both.
  3. Decide whether capital letters should count as different, and whether spaces should be included in character counts.
  4. Press Count frequency and read the tables.

Reading the Results

ColumnMeaning
Word or CharacterThe item that was counted. A space or a new line is shown in brackets.
CountHow many times it appears.
ShareThe count as a percentage of all words or all characters.

The tool lists the 30 most frequent words and the 30 most frequent characters. The method is a classic one called frequency analysis on Wikipedia, which is also the basis of simple code breaking.

What People Use It For

  • Editing. Spot words you lean on too often, such as very, really or just.
  • SEO writing. See which terms your text stresses, and whether your main topic stands out.
  • Learning. Study the most common words and letters of a language or a book.
  • Puzzles and ciphers. Frequency counts help break simple substitution ciphers.

Tips for Better Insight

Everyday words such as the and and come first in almost any English text, because this tool counts every word. For a view that skips them and also shows two-word and three-word phrases, use our keyword density checker. Count with case ignored for a normal word list, and match case only when capital letters matter, as in code.

In English, the letter e is usually the most frequent, followed by t, a and o. If your text shows a very different order, it may be in another language or in a code.

To remove repeated lines instead of counting them, use the duplicate line remover. To find data such as emails and numbers in the same text, try the text extractor, and to cut the text into parts, use the text splitter. The counting runs in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.

Seeing Your Text From a New Angle

Reading your own writing, you stop noticing repeated words. A frequency table makes them obvious. Run the count, look at the top of the list and rewrite where one word dominates. Writers, students and marketers often do this as a last check, and it takes only a few seconds.

Frequently Asked Questions

It shows which words you overuse, helps with editing and gives a quick view of a text's topic. Writers, students and SEO specialists use it.
It is the base of simple code breaking, called frequency analysis, and it helps to compare languages. In English, the letter e is the most common.
Yes. This tool counts every word, so filler words usually come first. For a view that skips them, use the keyword density checker.
The 30 most frequent words and the 30 most frequent characters, each with its count and share of the total.

Disclaimer: results are calculated in your browser from the numbers you enter. Check important results before you rely on them for money, health, safety or legal decisions.