Word Frequency Counter
Table of Contents
- Count word frequency online — Word Frequency Counter
- How to use
- What it counts — behavior & limits
- Examples
- Tips & typical workflows
- FAQ
- Is counting case-sensitive?
- Does the tool remove punctuation automatically?
- Does it support phrase (n‑gram) frequency?
- How do I export the results?
- Are character counts included?
- Related tools
A Practical Online Word Frequency Counter
Count word frequency online — Word Frequency Counter
Count how often words appear in a text and get a sortable frequency table with counts and percentages. This simple, fast online word frequency counter also shows character statistics (total characters and characters without spaces). Use it for quick content checks, keyword spotting, or vocabulary study.
How to use
- Paste your text into the editor.
- Click the Word Frequency button below the editor.
- View the results: a table of words with occurrence counts and percentage of total words. Use the editor’s copy action to export results to the clipboard.
What it counts — behavior & limits
- Case-sensitive counts: the tool does not lowercase or normalize text. "The" and "the" are counted separately.
- Basic tokenization by whitespace; punctuation is not removed automatically — run a pre-processing tool (Remove Punctuation) if needed.
- Each character is treated as one for the character statistics. The tool displays total characters and characters without spaces/whitespace.
- This is an atomic analysis: if you need to filter, normalize or remove stopwords first, use the available text tools before running Word Frequency.
Examples
Example input and resulting frequency output (demonstration):
Input: apple banana apple orange apple banana Totals: Words: 6 Characters (with spaces): 38 Characters (no spaces): 32 Output (word — count — %): apple — 3 — 50.0% banana — 2 — 33.3% orange — 1 — 16.7%
Example — short paragraph (how repeated words appear):
Input: Data science is data-driven. Good data powers analysis. Data matters. Output: Data — 3 — 33.3% data-driven — 1 — 11.1% Good — 1 — 11.1% powers — 1 — 11.1% analysis — 1 — 11.1% matters — 1 — 11.1%
Tips & typical workflows
- Make counts case-insensitive: run Case Converter (lowercase) before Word Frequency.
- Remove punctuation that attaches to words (commas, periods): use Remove Punctuation first.
- Extract unique words or deduplicate results using Extract Unique Words or Remove Duplicates.
- For advanced patterns (phrases or custom tokens) combine with the Pattern Extractor.
FAQ
Is counting case-sensitive?
Yes. The tool does not normalize case. "Apple" and "apple" are counted separately unless you convert text to a single case first (use Case Converter).
Does the tool remove punctuation automatically?
No. Punctuation remains attached to tokens. To ignore punctuation, run Remove Punctuation before counting.
Does it support phrase (n‑gram) frequency?
Not directly. Word Frequency analyzes tokens separated by whitespace. For phrase or pattern counts, use the Pattern Extractor or preprocess the text into phrase tokens.
How do I export the results?
Copy results to the clipboard from the editor view and paste them into your spreadsheet or document. The tool does not provide a direct CSV download; use the editor to prepare and export if needed.
Are character counts included?
Yes. The tool reports total characters and characters without spaces/whitespace alongside the word frequency output.