Free Word Counter & Frequency Analyzer

A word counter is a text analysis tool that counts total words, unique words, and analyzes word frequency patterns. Total words are counted the way Word and Google Docs count them, as runs of characters separated by whitespace. For the unique-word and frequency figures it also lowercases each word, trims punctuation from its ends and tallies occurrences. Results display instantly as you type or paste.

Total words count every word in your text, including repeats. Unique words only count each distinct word once. Example: "the cat and the dog" has 5 total words but only 4 unique words (the, cat, and, dog).

Word density is the share of your text that one word makes up: its occurrences ÷ words counted × 100. It is the figure SEO tools call keyword density, and very high values for a single keyword can read as repetitive or stuffed. This tool also shows Vocabulary Richness (unique words ÷ words counted), which measures how varied the whole text is.

No, it's not case-sensitive — text is converted to lowercase before counting, so "The" and "the" count as the same word. Punctuation at the ends of a word is also stripped, so "hello," and "hello!" both count as "hello", while "don't" and "well-known" stay whole. Letters from any script are kept, not just English ones.

No. All analysis runs in your browser without storing any data — your text is never sent to or saved on our servers. This is a fully client-side tool.