Paste your writing to see which words appear most often — a quick way to spot overused words before you publish.
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Every writer unconsciously leans on certain words. It might be a favorite adjective, a transition phrase used in three consecutive paragraphs, or a verb that shows up in nearly every sentence without the writer noticing while drafting. These repetitions are hard to catch by re-reading your own work, because your brain fills in variety that isn't actually on the page — a well-known blind spot in self-editing.
This tool surfaces that pattern by counting how many times every word appears across your text and listing the ones that show up more than once, ordered from most frequent to least. It's not making a judgment call about which repetitions are a problem — a repeated word used deliberately for rhythm or emphasis is a legitimate stylistic choice, not an error — but by putting the raw frequency data in front of you, it turns something invisible into something you can quickly scan and evaluate yourself.
It's a favorite of editors, bloggers, and students doing a final pass on a draft before submitting or publishing, particularly useful for catching filler words ("actually," "really," "very") that tend to accumulate without adding meaning, or a specific noun or verb that got overused because it was the first word that came to mind while writing quickly. Because this runs entirely in your browser, you can check drafts you haven't shared with anyone else yet.