Count word frequencies, filter stopwords, and get reading stats — great for SEO copy checks. 100% in-browser.
Paste text to see word frequencies, keyword density, and reading stats
Word counting runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to any server.
Tokenization lowercases the text and extracts runs of letters, digits, apostrophes, and hyphens (don't and state-of-the-art stay intact). Stopwords — the, is, of, and — carry grammar, not meaning; removing them exposes the actual topic words. For SEO, the ratio of your target keyword to total words is keyword density: the tool computes it live. Sentence counting splits on .!? boundaries, and the reading estimate assumes 200 words per minute.
Tokens are Unicode-aware (letters and digits from any language). Ties are broken alphabetically for stable output.
Leo drafts a landing page around the keyword "invoice" and wants to verify it reads naturally rather than being stuffed.
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Count word frequency and keyword density online free. Stopword filter, ranked table, density %, CSV export.
Repetition is invisible while you write and obvious once you count. A frequency table exposes the words you lean on too heavily, the keywords your copy actually emphasizes versus the ones you meant to emphasize, and the filler that inflates length without adding substance. Editors use it to vary diction; SEO writers use it to keep density in the natural 1-3% band.
Paste or type text and the tool tokenizes it case-insensitively, counts every word, and ranks by frequency with density percentages alongside. The stopword toggle removes roughly 100 common English function words so meaningful terms rise to the top. Sentence count and a 200-words-per-minute reading time round out the summary. Export the ranked table as CSV for spreadsheets.
The ranked table is only useful once it drives an edit. For writers, the top of the list exposes crutch words — the adverb or qualifier that appears twice per paragraph — and pruning them is the fastest prose upgrade there is. For SEO work, the density column tells a different story: a target term at 0.5% reads as under-optimized, while anything past 3% starts to read as stuffing — the 2% band is where natural writing lands when a topic genuinely matches. The CSV export exists so the table can go where editing happens: paste it next to your draft, sort by count, and work down until no unintended word outranks your subject.
Density is the number of times a word appears divided by the total number of words, expressed as a percentage. A 900-word document where the term pricing appears 12 times has a density of 1.33%. Most SEO guidance treats 1-3% as natural; beyond that, repetition starts reading as stuffing.
For SEO and content analysis, yes: stopwords like the, and, and of dominate raw counts without carrying meaning. The filter removes about 100 common English words so the ranking surfaces the terms your text is actually about. For linguistics work or readability checks, turn it off.
Total words divided by 200 words per minute, the standard average for adult silent reading of English prose. It rounds up to the nearest minute and is shown alongside the sentence count so you can judge both length and complexity at a glance.
There is no ranking bonus for any specific density — modern search systems understand topics, not repetition. Treat 1-2% as the natural zone where a term appears because the content is on-topic; above roughly 3% the page reads as stuffed to users, which is the actual ranking risk.
The counter splits on whitespace and punctuation, so it works for any space-separated language out of the box. The stopword filter is English-tuned — for other languages, either turn the filter off or pre-clean the text. Languages without spaces (Chinese, Japanese, Thai) need segmentation before counting.
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