Find the words you repeat too often
Every writer has crutch words. A frequency count makes them visible — and tells you where to prune.
Tools used in this guide
The job
You suspect 'just', 'really', or 'however' appears on every other line of your draft. Paste the text into the word frequency counter and the ranked table shows the counts — no guessing.
The tool also handles Japanese text by segmenting it into words, so it works on mixed-language documents.
Reading the table
Words are ranked by count. The percentage column shows each word's share of the total — a function word above a few percent is usually a style habit rather than a need.
Case-insensitive mode merges 'The' and 'the'; turn it off if capitalization matters, e.g. for names.
What it does not do
It counts exact words, not meaning. 'Run', 'runs', and 'running' are three different entries, and Japanese segmentation splits at dictionary-word boundaries, which can differ from how you would chunk the sentence.
There is no judgment about which words are bad — a technical term may legitimately appear dozens of times.