Word Frequency Analyzer | Top Words & Word Count Tool

Word Frequency Analyzer

Count words, find top words, remove stopwords, ignore punctuation, and export frequency lists. Private and runs in your browser.
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Word Frequency Analyzer
Paste text and get a frequency table with counts, percentages, and top N filtering. Options: remove stopwords, ignore punctuation, case sensitivity, custom stopwords.
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Word Frequency Analyzer — Find Top Words & Clean Language Data

A word frequency analyzer is one of the most useful micro-tools for writers, editors, marketers, and data analysts. It reveals which words appear most often in a piece of text, highlights repetition, and helps you understand the dominant themes and focus. The Word Frequency Analyzer on Text Mini Tools runs entirely in your browser — it’s fast, private, and designed for both short snippets and long articles.

Why you’d use a word frequency tool

There are many reasons to analyze word frequency. As a writer or editor you might use it to check for repetitive language, overused filler words, or confusing jargon. Marketers and SEOs use frequency analysis to spot keyword distribution and make sure important terms appear enough times (but not too much). Data scientists and NLP practitioners use this step during preprocessing to clean text, remove noise, and prepare features for models. Even teachers and students use frequency counts to analyze essays, speeches, or transcripts.

Key features you’ll find here

This analyzer focuses on core, practical features: tokenization that handles Unicode text, options to ignore punctuation, the ability to remove stopwords (common words that add little meaning), case-insensitive or case-sensitive analysis, a Top N view to spotlight the most frequent tokens, and export options (CSV/JSON) so you can use results in spreadsheets or tools.

Stopwords and why they matter

Stopwords are common function words like “the”, “and”, or “is” that frequently appear but contribute little to topical meaning. For many analytical tasks you’ll want to remove stopwords to surface the words that carry real subject matter. This tool includes a compact default stopword list and lets you paste custom stopwords for domain-specific filtering (for example, brand names, or legal terms you want to ignore).

Best practices for analysis

  • Decide case-sensitivity: For thematic analysis, use case-insensitive (default) so “Apple” and “apple” count as the same word. For proper-name studies, enable case-sensitivity.
  • Ignore punctuation: Turn on the ignore-punctuation option to make tokens focus on words only. This removes commas, parentheses, and other punctuation from splitting tokens.
  • Remove stopwords: Filter out common words to highlight meaningful vocabulary.
  • Use Top N appropriately: For short texts, a Top 10 or Top 20 is often enough. For long documents, use Top 100 or more.
  • Export and further process: Use CSV exports to load into Excel, Google Sheets, or your data pipeline for charts and deeper analysis.

Practical examples

SEO & content editing: Run your draft through the analyzer to ensure target keywords are present but not overly repeated. You can spot redundant words and rewrite sentences to improve flow.

Social media analysis: Paste collected social media text to spot trending words or hashtags (after adding hashtags to custom stopwords if you want to exclude them).

NLP preprocessing: After tokenizing and filtering stopwords with this tool you can export a cleaned word list to use as features or to seed more advanced n-gram analysis.

Privacy & performance

The analyzer processes text locally in your browser, ensuring privacy and instant results. It supports Unicode and most languages, but stopword filtering is language-dependent — for best results in non-English languages, paste a proper stopword list. Performance is excellent for typical documents; extremely large corpora should be analyzed in specialized environments, but this tool handles everyday tasks and long articles with ease.

Wrap-up

Whether you're editing copy, researching keywords, or preparing text for analysis, the Word Frequency Analyzer is a compact utility that delivers immediate insights. Paste your text, toggle options, and examine the Top N words to discover patterns and improve your writing or analysis workflow.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is word frequency analysis?

It counts how often each word appears in a text. Frequency can reveal dominant topics, repetitive wording, and potential SEO keywords.

2. Does the tool support other languages?

Yes — tokenization supports Unicode. For best stopword removal in other languages, paste a custom stopword list for that language.

3. Can I analyze phrases (n-grams)?

This tool focuses on single-word frequency. If you need phrase (2-3 word) frequency, I can provide a custom version or script.

4. How do I remove stopwords?

Check the "Remove stopwords" option. You can also paste your own comma-separated stopwords into the custom stopwords input.

5. Will punctuation affect counts?

If "Ignore punctuation" is enabled, punctuation is removed before tokenization. Otherwise, punctuation may create separate tokens.

6. Can I export the results?

Yes — use "Export CSV" to download a CSV file with rank, word, count and percentage. You can also copy CSV to clipboard.

7. Is the data stored on your server?

No — all processing happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored externally.

8. How does case sensitivity work?

If case-insensitive (default off), "Apple" and "apple" are treated the same. Toggle case sensitivity to change this behavior.

9. How many words can it process?

It handles typical documents and long articles. Extremely large corpora may be slower depending on your device's memory.

10. Can I use this for SEO keyword research?

Yes — it helps surface commonly used words and potential keyword targets, but pair with search data tools for volume and competition insights.

11. Will it remove numbers?

No — numbers remain as tokens unless you remove them before analysis with the Remove Numbers tool.

12. Can I search within results?

The table is basic — after export you can search and filter in a spreadsheet. If you want an integrated search UI I can add it.

13. Are stopwords language-specific?

Yes. The default stopword list is English. For other languages paste a custom stopword list to improve filtering.

14. Can I get percent share of words?

Yes — the tool shows percentage share in the results table and in exports.

15. Is this tool free?

Yes — Word Frequency Analyzer is free, private, and requires no registration.