Keyword Frequency Counter
Count how often each word or phrase appears in a list or block of text, sorted by frequency, with optional stop-word filtering.
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About this tool
Counting is the least glamorous and most reliable form of text analysis. The Keyword Frequency Counter tells you exactly how many times each word appears in a block of text, or how many times each line repeats in a list. It is the tool to reach for when you need facts about a document rather than suggestions about it.
How it works
In word mode the text is split into word tokens, optionally filtered against a list of English stop words, and each remaining word is tallied. In line mode each non-empty line is treated as a single unit and compared case-insensitively, which is exactly what you want when auditing an exported keyword list for repeats. Both modes report totals, unique counts and each entry's share of the whole.
- 1Paste your text or your keyword list.
- 2Choose whether to count individual words or whole lines.
- 3Decide whether common stop words should be ignored.
- 4Generate and download the frequency table as CSV.
Example
Input
running shoes, running shoes, cycling shoes
Output
running shoes — 2 — 66.67% · cycling shoes — 1 — 33.33%
When to use it
- Auditing an exported list for accidental duplicates before uploading it.
- Measuring the vocabulary range of a piece of writing.
- Finding filler words that pad your copy.
- Counting how often a product name appears across a batch of descriptions.
Tips
- Turn stop words off when you are studying writing style rather than topic.
- Line mode plus the Keyword Deduplicator is a fast audit-then-fix workflow.
- Export to CSV and chart the top twenty if you need to present the findings.
Limitations
Word counting has no understanding of meaning. Singular and plural forms count separately, misspellings count as distinct words, and a word used ironically counts the same as a word used seriously. Stop-word filtering only covers English.
Frequently asked questions
- Is frequency the same as search volume?
- No, and the difference matters. Frequency counts appearances inside the text you pasted. Search volume estimates how many people query a phrase, which requires a search engine's data.
- Why do plurals count separately?
- The counter matches exact tokens rather than stems, so shoe and shoes are different entries. This keeps results predictable and language-neutral.
- How many results are shown?
- Up to two hundred entries, ranked by count. Export the CSV if you need the whole table in a spreadsheet.