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Word Frequency Counter
Word Frequency Counter is part of Toolspire and is ready as soon as this page loads. A word is a run of letters and digits. “Cat” and “cat” add together. Punctuation is not part of the word, so “cat,” is still cat.
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What you can do here
Most frequent at the top
A tie falls back to alphabetical order of the folded word.
Letters and digits
A hyphen splits a word. “well-known” is two tokens.
Not a density percent
The keyword-density page is the percent. This page is the raw counts.
The sequence
How to use the Word Frequency Counter
- 1
Paste the passage
The sample is two cats and one dog.
- 2
Read the first line as the mode
If several words tie, the alphabetical one among them comes first only after the count sort.
- 3
Use occurrence counter for one word
This page lists every word. The other page answers “how many times this one”.
Worth knowing
- Word Frequency Counter on Toolspire: cat cat dog reports cat 2, then dog 1.
- Case is folded. Cat and cat are one word.
- The list is ordered by count descending, then by the word.
- The word counter’s total is a single number. This page is the breakdown.
A tally, not a single total
Each run of letters or digits is a word, folded to lower case. “cat cat dog” therefore has cat twice and dog once, and cat is listed first because 2 beats 1. The ordinary word counter would say three words and stop. Frequency is the list behind that total. It will not stem “cats” into “cat”, and it will not drop stop-words. “The” will quite possibly be the top line of a real paragraph.
FAQ
Questions about Word Frequency Counter
Where does Word Frequency Counter run?
What does “cat cat dog” produce?
Are Cat and cat the same?
Are stop-words removed?
Does cats match cat?
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