Analyze any text to find its most frequent words, bigrams and trigrams.
A word frequency counter reads a block of text and tells you how often each word shows up, ranked from most to least common. This one goes further and also counts bigrams (two-word phrases) and trigrams (three-word phrases), because the phrases you repeat often say more about a piece of writing than single words do. Alongside the rankings you get a live read-out of the word, character, sentence, and reading-time totals.
It's the kind of thing writers and SEO folks reach for constantly: to catch a word you've leaned on too hard, to gauge keyword density, or to see at a glance what a competitor's page is really about. You can filter out common stop words like "the" and "is", set a minimum word length or frequency, and then copy any list or export it to CSV. Everything runs in your browser, so even a long manuscript stays private and the results appear the moment you stop typing.
Counting words sounds simple, but it answers a lot of practical questions:
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They're just short phrases. A bigram is any two words that appear next to each other (like "content marketing"), and a trigram is three in a row ("free online tool"). Counting them matters because a single keyword rarely tells the whole story — the repeated phrases reveal what the text is genuinely focused on.
Stop words are the high-frequency glue words of a language — "the", "a", "is", "of", and so on. They top every frequency list but carry little meaning, so most analysis tools skip them. We leave Ignore stop words on by default to give you a cleaner, more useful ranking; turn it off if you specifically want to count them.
Frequency analysis is a quick way to sanity-check keyword density: are you mentioning your main topic enough to be relevant, without repeating it so much that it reads as spam? The bigram and trigram columns are especially handy for spotting the long-tail phrases your page ranks for, or should.
Very closely. We split text on spaces and punctuation and count the resulting tokens, keeping apostrophes so "don't" stays one word. Tiny differences can appear around hyphenated terms or unusual symbols, but for normal prose the totals line up with what Word or Google Docs report.
There's no fixed limit. The analysis happens in your browser, so very large documents lean on your device's memory and the longest lists are capped at the top 500 entries for speed, but typical articles and essays are processed instantly.
Completely. Every count happens locally in your browser with JavaScript — your text is never uploaded, stored, or logged, and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.