CalcWhenWord Frequency Counter
In “the cat sat on the mat and the cat slept”, the word “the” appears 3 times — 30% of the whole text — ahead of “cat” with 2.
How it works
Paste a draft and meet your habits: the words you lean on, ranked by how often they appear, with each word's share of the whole text. Writers hunt down crutch words here; students check keyword coverage; analysts get a first feel for a document before deeper tools come out.
The panel headlines your unique-word count — the vocabulary breadth of the piece — and calls out your single most-used word, which is very often the one you least expected.
The method
Text is lowercased and split into tokens of letters, digits and apostrophes (so “don't” stays one word and “Cat” merges with “cat”). Counts are ranked by frequency, ties broken alphabetically; percentages are shares of all tokens. The table shows the top 15.
Frequently asked questions
Why is “the” always first?
Because English runs on it — “the” is roughly 5–6% of ordinary prose. Interesting analysis starts below the function words: the first content word in your ranking is your real crutch.
Are capitalised words counted separately?
No — counting is case-insensitive, so “Apple” the sentence-start and “apple” the fruit merge. For most frequency questions that is the intent.
What counts as one word?
Letters, digits and internal apostrophes. Hyphenated words split into two tokens here (unlike the word counter), because frequency analysis usually wants the parts.