How to use it
- Paste your text into the box. The table updates as you type.
- Leave “Ignore case” on so “The” and “the” count together, or turn it off to count them apart.
- Turn on “Skip common English words” to see the content words instead of “the”, “and” and “of”, and choose how many rows to show.
- Press Copy table to get the words and counts as tab-separated lines for a spreadsheet.
How it works
The text is split into words, each word is counted in a map, and the rows are sorted by count, highest first. With case ignored, every word is lowercased before counting. A curly apostrophe is treated like a straight one, so “don’t” and “don’t” are the same word.
Worked example
In “The dog and the fox. The end.” with case ignored, “the” appears 3 times out of 7 words (42.9%), and “dog”, “and”, “fox”, “end” once each (14.3%). With common words skipped, only “dog”, “fox” and “end” remain, 33.3% each.
Tips
Use it on your own draft to catch overused words, or on a competitor’s page to see its vocabulary. For phrases of two or more words, this tool is not enough: it counts single words only.