Which words are treated as stopwords?

A built-in list of roughly 90 common English function words, including the, and, of, to, is, that, with, and the basic pronouns and auxiliaries. When the toggle is on, any word in that list is removed before ranking so your content words rise to the top.

What does the minimum word length do?

It drops any word shorter than the chosen length. Single-character tokens are always excluded, and raising the minimum to 3 or 4 removes short words like to, of, an, and the that stopword filtering might miss in other languages.

Does case-insensitive change the counts?

Yes. With it on, Apple and apple are counted as the same word and reported in lowercase. With it off, capitalised and lowercase forms are tracked separately, which is useful for spotting proper nouns or inconsistent capitalisation.

How is the bar length decided?

Each bar is sized relative to the single most frequent word in the current list, which gets a full-width bar. Every other word's bar is its count as a proportion of that top count, so the chart shows relative dominance at a glance.

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Word frequency analyzer

Find the most common words in any text with stopword filtering, minimum length controls, and a simple count bar for each result.

Ignore common stopwords

Case-insensitive

Min word length

Text

Top 25 words

Word counts appear here.

About the Word frequency

The word frequency analyzer lists the most common words in your text and shows each one's count with a bar scaled to the most frequent term. It is the fast way to see what a piece of writing is really about, to catch words you overuse, and to pull candidate keywords out of a body of copy.

Three controls shape the result. You can ignore common stopwords so filler like the, and, and of does not dominate the list, treat the text case-insensitively so The and the merge, and set a minimum word length to drop short noise words. The tool always shows the top 25 words after your filters are applied, computed entirely in your browser.

How to use it

Paste the text you want to analyse into the input panel.
Leave Ignore common stopwords on to hide function words, or turn it off to see every term.
Keep Case-insensitive on so capitalised and lowercase forms of a word are counted together.
Set Min word length to 2, 3, or 4 to filter out very short tokens.
Read the ranked Top 25 list and bars, then use Copy table to export the words and counts as tab-separated pairs.

Examples

Pull keywords from an article

You paste a 900-word article on home composting with stopwords ignored. The top terms come back as compost, bin, food, waste, and garden. That list tells you, and a search engine, what the page is about, and confirms you actually used your target keyword often enough.

Catch an overused word

A short story feels repetitive. With case-insensitive on, the analyzer shows suddenly appearing nine times, far above the next word. You replace most of them with specific actions, and the prose stops lurching from one sudden event to the next.

Frequently asked questions

Which words are treated as stopwords?: A built-in list of roughly 90 common English function words, including the, and, of, to, is, that, with, and the basic pronouns and auxiliaries. When the toggle is on, any word in that list is removed before ranking so your content words rise to the top.
What does the minimum word length do?: It drops any word shorter than the chosen length. Single-character tokens are always excluded, and raising the minimum to 3 or 4 removes short words like to, of, an, and the that stopword filtering might miss in other languages.
Does case-insensitive change the counts?: Yes. With it on, Apple and apple are counted as the same word and reported in lowercase. With it off, capitalised and lowercase forms are tracked separately, which is useful for spotting proper nouns or inconsistent capitalisation.
How is the bar length decided?: Each bar is sized relative to the single most frequent word in the current list, which gets a full-width bar. Every other word's bar is its count as a proportion of that top count, so the chart shows relative dominance at a glance.

Good to know

Frequency analysis is a blunt but honest signal for content work. For search, it confirms whether your main topic actually appears often enough to be unambiguous, and it exposes accidental keyword stuffing where one term is repeated unnaturally. For style, it reveals verbal tics, the favourite adverb or transition you reach for without noticing, which are far easier to fix once you can see them ranked.

Raw counts do not measure importance on their own. A word can be frequent simply because the topic demands it, and a rare word can carry the key idea, so do not chase a flat distribution for its own sake. Stopword lists are also language-specific; the built-in list is English, so for other languages lean on the minimum-length filter, and remember that the tool counts surface word forms, treating run and running as two different words rather than one lemma.