Find Top Words in Text
List the most frequently used words and their counts. Runs entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your device.
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Output
The result appears here as you type.
How to use Find Top Words in Text
- 1. Paste your text. Enter an article, transcript or set of survey responses into the input pane. Word boundaries are detected automatically from spaces and punctuation.
- 2. Set How many to show and Case sensitive. How many to show caps the ranked list at the top N most frequent words. Turn on Case sensitive if 'Product' and 'product' should be counted as separate words rather than merged.
- 3. Read the ranked word list. The output lists each of the top words with its occurrence count, most frequent first, so you can quickly see what dominates the text.
When to use Find Top Words in Text
Find Top Words in Text counts how often each word appears and ranks the most frequent ones. Use it to quickly surface the recurring themes in any block of text without reading every line.
- Summarizing customer feedback themes. You have hundreds of open-ended survey responses pasted into one block and want to spot the recurring complaint words fast. Rank the top words to see what customers mention most.
- Auditing keyword density for SEO. Before publishing an article, you want to check that a target keyword isn't repeated so often it looks like keyword stuffing. Run the top-words count and compare it to the total word count.
- Finding filler words in a transcript. A podcast transcript is full of repeated filler phrases you want to trim in editing. List the top words to spot which ones show up most before cleaning the script.
Examples
Top 2 words
Input
the cat and the dog and the bird
Output
the: 3 and: 2
About the Find Top Words in Text tool
Find Top Words in Text is a free online tool that works entirely inside your web browser. List the most frequently used words and their counts. Because the processing happens on your own device, nothing you enter is uploaded, logged or stored anywhere.
This page is one of 211 Text utilities on EditSafely. Each one does a single job well, and all of them follow the same rule: your input stays on your machine.
You can shape the output with 2 settings, including How many to show and Case sensitive, and the result refreshes the moment you change one. A worked example further down the page shows exactly what the tool produces for a real input.
Because nothing leaves your device, the tool is suitable for sensitive content such as internal documents, credentials or customer data. It also responds instantly, since every keystroke is handled on your own machine rather than by a remote API.
Frequently asked questions
Does Find Top Words in Text cost anything?
Yes, it is completely free. All 2,658 tools on EditSafely work without an account, a subscription or usage limits.
Is it safe to paste sensitive or confidential data?
No data leaves your device. The whole tool is JavaScript that runs inside your browser tab, so there is no upload, no server-side processing and no log of what you did. If you disconnect from the internet after the page loads, it keeps working.
How much text can I process at once?
There is no fixed limit. Because the work happens on your own device rather than on a shared server, the practical ceiling is your machine's memory, which comfortably handles inputs far larger than typical online tools allow.
Do I need to sign up or install anything?
Nothing to install and no account needed. Open the page in any up-to-date browser, including on a phone or tablet, and the tool is ready.
How do I use the result?
The output panel has a one-click copy button, and you can keep refining the input while you work; the result updates in place as you type.