Paste any text to extract and rank its keywords by frequency. Stopwords and short words are filtered automatically, with a live tag cloud and one-click copy.
Word count alone doesn't tell you what a piece of writing is actually about. Filtering out common function words surfaces the terms that carry the meaning.
Common words like the, and, of and is are excluded automatically so they don't dominate the results.
Raise or lower the minimum word length to fine-tune results for short or technical text.
See keyword importance at a glance, with font size scaled to how often each word appears.
Keyword frequency analysis is one of the oldest techniques in text analytics, and it still works because most languages, English included, are dominated by a small set of grammatical words that appear constantly regardless of topic. Words like the, of, to, and, a and in typically account for a large share of any English text's total word count, yet they say nothing about the subject matter. Filtering them out, a step known as stopword removal, is what turns a raw word frequency count into something actually useful for spotting a document's real focus. This tool ships with a list of more than 150 common English stopwords covering articles, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and common auxiliary verbs. Beyond stopwords, very short words are often noise too, which is why a minimum length filter is included and defaults to 4 characters, long enough to exclude most leftover short words without cutting genuinely meaningful four-letter terms. The percentage column matters as much as the raw count: a word appearing 5 times in a 50-word text is far more dominant than the same count in a 2,000-word article, and the percentage makes that difference visible at a glance instead of requiring mental math. None of this replaces true natural-language topic modeling, but for a fast, transparent read on what a piece of text emphasizes, simple frequency counting after stopword removal remains hard to beat.
High frequency suggests emphasis, not necessarily importance; use judgment alongside the numbers.
This list targets general English; specialized fields may need additional words filtered manually.
From a single paragraph to a full article, the ranking recalculates instantly as you type.
The tool lowercases and splits your text into words, removes common stopwords and anything shorter than the minimum length, then counts and sorts what remains by frequency.
The tool uses a built-in list of over 150 common English function words, such as the, and, of, to and is, which carry little topical meaning on their own.
Yes. Use the minimum length control to exclude short words. It defaults to 4 characters, but you can lower or raise it to fit your text.
It shows what share of all counted words (after filtering) each keyword represents, which helps gauge how dominant a term is rather than just its raw count.
Yes. All extraction happens locally in your browser using plain JavaScript. Your text is never uploaded or stored.
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