Word and Character Frequency Counter
Paste any text to see which words or characters appear most often, ranked with counts and percentages. Use word mode for English and character mode for Japanese or Chinese. Handy for spotting repeated words in a draft or pulling out keywords. For overall length, try the Character Counter; to compare two versions of a text, use the Text Diff Checker. Your text is processed in the browser and never sent to a server.
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How to use
- Paste your text into "Text".
- Choose characters or words under "Count by".
- Set "Top results" to keep only the most frequent items.
- Check the table, then export it with "Copy CSV" or "Download CSV" if you need it.
Notes
- In character mode, emoji and combined characters count as one visible character. Spaces, punctuation and symbols are skipped by default.
- Words are split with the browser's word segmentation, so Japanese text is also counted in word-like units. Results can vary slightly between browsers.
- Items with the same count are listed in the order they first appear. Shares are relative to the total after exclusions.
- Common words such as English articles and Japanese particles, are not filtered out.
- The CSV has a comma-separated header row and CRLF line endings. Items starting with =, +, - or @ get a leading ' so spreadsheets do not treat them as formulas.
FAQ
Should I count Japanese text by characters or by words?
It depends on the goal. Use characters to see which kanji and kana dominate a text, and words to pull out keywords. Word mode relies on the browser's word segmentation, which gives word-like units for Japanese but can differ slightly between browsers.
Are "The" and "the" counted as different words?
By default case is ignored and both are merged under the lowercase form. Untick Ignore case to count them separately.
How are items with the same count ordered?
Ties are listed in the order they first appear in the text. If a tie straddles your top-N cutoff, the earlier items are the ones kept.
Can I use the results in Excel or Google Sheets?
Yes. Copy or download the CSV; its columns are rank, character or word, count and share (%), encoded as UTF-8. If Excel shows garbled text, import the file as data and choose UTF-8.
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