Frequency Analysis
Local ProcessingCount how often each word, character or phrase appears.
How It Works & Processing Standards
Count how often each word, character or phrase appears.
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Current Limits
- Maximum input length: 2,000,000 characters
Choose words, characters or phrases under "Task". A table shows the most used items and their share.
What You Can Do
- Words
- Frequency and share of space-separated words
- Characters
- Frequency of each character, with an option to skip spaces
- Phrases
- Frequency of runs of N words (for example two-word phrases)
How to Use Frequency Analysis
- 1Choose a taskPick what to count.
- 2Enter textSet ignore case, skip spaces or phrase length.
- 3Read the tableItems, counts and shares, most frequent first.
Examples
Word frequency
Input: the cat and the dog and the bird
Result: the 3 (37.5%), and 2 (25.0%)
Character frequency
Input: banana
Result: a 3 (50.0%), n 2 (33.3%), b 1 (16.7%)
Common Use Cases
- Finding repeated expressions to edit out
- Checking keyword density in a blog post
- Letter frequency for ciphers and puzzles
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How are Korean words with particles counted?
By space-separated chunk, so "회의는" and "회의를" count as different words.
Can I leave out common words like "the"?
Ignore them in the table, or remove them first with the Character Remover.