Most Frequent Words
Find the most common words in your text, ranked by count and percentage. Browser-only.
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About Most Frequent Words
This tool tallies how often each word appears in your text and presents the results in descending order. Function words (the, of, and, to, a) typically dominate; nouns and verbs tend to follow. The histogram bars make it easy to spot whether one word dominates or the distribution is flat.
When to use it
- Spotting overused words in a draft
- Identifying the dominant themes of a long document
- Producing input for a tag cloud or word visualization
- Comparing two texts' lexical profiles
How it works
Words are tokenized as runs of letters and digits with optional internal apostrophes/hyphens, then lowercased for case-insensitive comparison. Each unique word's count and percentage of the total are computed. Results are sorted by count descending, breaking ties alphabetically.
Examples
The cat sat. The cat slept. The dog ran.
the (3, 33%), cat (2, 22%), sat (1, 11%), …
Frequently asked questions
- Is it case-sensitive?
- No. 'Cat' and 'cat' count as the same word. The text is lowercased before tallying.
- Are stop words excluded?
- No — this tool counts every word equally. For SEO-style keyword analysis that excludes 'the', 'a', etc., post-process or use a dedicated stop-word list.
- How are word forms handled?
- Not at all — 'run', 'runs', and 'running' count as different words. Lemma-aware analysis requires an NLP library.