Word frequency
Count occurrences of word and number tokens in text
Paste text to count as you go, and use the dropdown to show only words above a threshold.
| Word | Count |
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Example
Input
red blue red Green
Example result
red 2\nblue 1\ngreen 1
Input is not uploaded. Consecutive Han characters have no space-based word boundary, so they count as one token.
Technical details & limits
The browser matches Unicode letter and number tokens, allowing internal hyphens and apostrophes, then folds case using the local lower-case rule. Results sort by count descending and then by word.
About this tool
Count Unicode letter and number tokens, sorted by frequency by default. Input remains in the browser.
Use cases
- Quickly find repeated words in a block of text.
How to use
- Paste the text; the table updates as you type.
- Use the minimum-occurrences dropdown to drop one-off words.
- Results sort by count descending, then alphabetically when counts tie.
Notes
This is token counting, not Chinese word segmentation; consecutive Han characters count as one text token.
FAQ
- Does English word frequency counting distinguish uppercase and lowercase?
- This tool converts text to lowercase before counting, so English capitalization does not create separate frequency entries. Apple and apple are 2 occurrences combined under apple with a count of 2. Results are sorted by descending frequency, then by a locale-aware text comparison for ties. You do not need to rewrite the original manually, but should remember that the output no longer distinguishes the original capitalization of each occurrence.
- How does the minimum frequency setting filter word counts?
- The minimum frequency setting filters displayed entries without changing their underlying counts. A word appearing 3 times is visible with a threshold of 2 and hidden with a threshold of 4. The table shows only entries meeting the selected limit. Review tokenization and remove irrelevant source text before analysis, because adjusting this threshold does not combine related words or correct how the input was divided into counting units.
- Can the word frequency tool segment Chinese sentences automatically?
- This tool does not perform semantic Chinese word segmentation; it counts continuous letter or number sequences as units. An uninterrupted Chinese passage can become 1 group, while separating it into 2 parts with spaces creates 2 groups. Prepare segmented text first if you need counts for individual Chinese words. The output is then a frequency table for those supplied tokens, not an independent linguistic interpretation of the original passage.
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