Most Frequent Words Finder

Identify the most commonly used keywords and terms in your text

Input Text

Number of words to show

Keyword Frequency Table

Rank	Word	Frequency	Percentage	Intensity

See what your text repeats the most

Repetition is easy to miss when you are the one writing. The Most Frequent Words Finder counts every word in a block of text and ranks the most common ones, which helps with editing, keyword checks and basic text analysis. A rank table and a chart show the picture at a glance.

Getting your ranking

Paste your text into the Input Text box. It can be an essay, a transcript, a product page or a set of reviews.
Set Number of words to show. The box starts at 10 and accepts values from 1 to 100.
Click Extract Keywords.
Read the Keyword Frequency Table, which lists each word's Rank, Word, Frequency, Percentage and an Intensity bar.
Look at the doughnut chart below it for a visual share of the listed words, and press Download Report to save the table text as keyword_frequency.txt.

How words are counted

The text is lowercased and split into words made of letters, digits and underscores. Words shorter than three characters are left out of the ranking. The Percentage column is each word's count divided by all words in the text, including the short ones that were skipped, so the percentages of the listed words will not necessarily add up to what you expect. The Intensity bar is a rough visual scale of that percentage.

Where it helps

Editing an essay to find a crutch word you keep reusing.
Reading customer reviews pasted together to see which topics come up repeatedly.
Comparing two drafts of the same article to see how their emphasis differs.
Studying a speech transcript for its recurring themes.

Read the results with care

There is no stop-word filter, so words such as the, and, that and with will normally lead the list; look further down for meaningful terms, or increase the number of words shown. Contractions are split at the apostrophe, so don't contributes a separate fragment. Because only basic letters and digits count as word characters, accented letters and non-Latin scripts break words apart and give unreliable results. The chart colors repeat after ten entries. Editing the text hides the last results, so run the extraction again. Counting and charting happen in your browser, with the chart library loaded from a public CDN.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why are common words like the and and at the top?

The tool does not filter stop words, so it ranks every word of three or more letters. To find meaningful terms, scan past the common ones or raise the number of words shown to see more of the list.

How many words can I list?

The Number of words to show field accepts any value from 1 to 100, with 10 as the default. If your text has fewer distinct words than the number you ask for, you will simply see all of them.

How is the percentage calculated?

It is the word's frequency divided by the total number of words in your text, including short words that are not ranked, shown to one decimal place. That is why the listed percentages may not sum to 100.

Does it work with non-English text?

Only partly. It recognizes basic letters, digits and underscores as word characters, so accented letters and non-Latin scripts split words apart. Plain English and similar unaccented text gives the most reliable results.

What does the Download Report button save?

It saves the text of the ranking table as keyword_frequency.txt, including each word's rank, frequency and percentage. The chart image is not included in the file, only the table content.