Word Frequency Counter

How it is calculated

The text is lower-cased, then each run of letters, digits and combining marks is taken as one word. A hyphen or apostrophe inside a word keeps it together, so well-known and cat's are one word each; curly apostrophes (’) and typographic hyphens are first turned into straight ones, so cat’s and cat's are the same word. A hyphen or quote at the start or end of a word is dropped, as are spaces and all other punctuation. The tool counts each distinct word and sorts by count, highest first, with ties in plain byte order (so ç or ö come after z). Each table line reads word — count, and the tool also gives total and unique word counts. Numbers count as words. On the Turkish page, capital I becomes ı and İ becomes i; on other pages I becomes i. Common words are not removed, plurals are not merged and nothing is stemmed. Text with no letters or digits gives no result.

Common mistakes

• Expecting a hyphenated word to be counted as its parts. well-known is one entry, separate from well and known, so searching for how often well appears will miss it.
• Expecting the table to be a keyword density figure without removing common words. Words like the and and will top the list, and the tool does not filter them.
• Treating singular and plural, or different verb forms, as the same word. kedi and kediler are counted separately.
• Assuming the total includes only words. Standalone numbers such as years are counted as words too.
• Pasting Turkish text on a non-Turkish page. There the capital I is lowered to i, so IŞIK and ışık are not merged; use the Turkish page for Turkish text.