The Word Frequency Finder is a free online tool that reads your input and tells you exactly how many times each unique word appears. It works with plain text and with HTML, and it updates the results as you type. Use it to study keyword density, compare drafts, or simply satisfy your curiosity about a piece of writing.

This tool extracts every word from your input, counts how often each word occurs, and lists the results as word: count pairs sorted from most frequent to least frequent. The right-hand panel shows live statistics: total words, unique words, the most frequent word, and how many words were ignored.

Text mode: Counts words directly from whatever you paste or type. For example, the sentence "The cat sat on the mat. The cat was happy." produces the: 2, cat: 2, sat: 1, on: 1, mat: 1, was: 1, happy: 1.

HTML mode: Strips HTML tags and comments before counting, so markup is never treated as a word. For example, <p>Hello <b>world</b></p> counts only hello: 1, world: 1 — the p and b tags are ignored.

Word definition: Choose Alphabetics (A-Z only) to count English letters only, or Include numbers & Unicode to also count digits and letters from any language (for example, COVID19 or café).

Words to ignore: Enter a comma-separated list of words to exclude from the results. For example, adding the, and, a hides those very common words so you can focus on the meaningful ones.

Copy & Download: Copy the plain-text results to your clipboard or download them as a .txt file with a single click.

SEO & content writing: See which words dominate a page so you can balance keyword usage, avoid stuffing, and spot terms you repeat too often or not enough.

Teaching & learning: Students and teachers can analyse essays, speeches or reading passages to study vocabulary, check for overused words, and measure how varied the language is.

Editing & proofreading: Quickly find repeated words and redundant phrasing in a draft, helping you tighten the writing before publishing.

Research & data cleaning: Summarise the vocabulary of surveys, interviews or scraped text, and use the ignore list to filter out filler words and focus on the meaningful terms.

Language study: Paste foreign-language text to discover the most common words and build a priority list of vocabulary to learn first.

Type or paste your text into the left box, or upload a file. Pick Text or HTML mode, choose how words should be defined, and optionally add words to ignore. The results appear automatically on the right; you can also press Find Word Frequencies to recalculate. Use Copy or Download to save the list, or Clear to start over.

FAQ 1: Does the HTML mode count the tags themselves?
Answer: No. In HTML mode the tool removes all tags (such as <div>, <p>, <span>) and comments before counting, so only the visible text words are analysed.

FAQ 2: Is the counting case-sensitive?
Answer: No. "The", "the" and "THE" are counted as the same word. The results are shown in lowercase.

FAQ 3: How do I exclude common words like "the" and "and"?
Answer: Type them in the Words to ignore box, separated by commas. They will not appear in the results, and the "Ignored words" statistic shows how many were skipped.

FAQ 4: What is the difference between the two word-definition options?
Answer: Alphabetics (A-Z only) matches English letters only. Include numbers & Unicode also matches digits and non-English letters, so words like "COVID19" or "café" are counted as single words.

FAQ 5: How is the list sorted?
Answer: Results are sorted from the most frequent word to the least frequent. Words with the same count are listed alphabetically.

FAQ 6: Is my text saved or uploaded anywhere?
Answer: No. All processing happens in your browser. We do not store or transmit the text you enter.