Word frequency counter
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Frequently asked questions
Text analysis and keyword density
What is counting word frequency good for?
To measure the keyword density of a text written for search, to see which words repeat across a document, to catch stylistic tics in your own writing and to analyse textual data of any kind.
What are stop words?
The very common words that carry no meaning of their own: articles, prepositions and conjunctions such as "the", "of", "to", "is". Filtering them out leaves in view the words that actually say what the text is about.
How is keyword density worked out?
It is the share of times a word appears out of the total: occurrences divided by total words, times a hundred. For text written for search a density between one and three per cent is usually quoted, though it is a guide rather than a rule.
Does it work with languages other than English?
Yes. The stop word list carries both the commonest Italian words, across articles, prepositions and pronouns, and the English ones, and the count handles accented letters properly, which would otherwise break words in two.