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Rank the most common words in a text to check keyword density.

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Frequently asked questions

What is keyword density and does it still matter for SEO?

Density is how often a word appears as a percentage of total words. It is no longer a ranking factor — search engines stopped counting repetitions long ago. It is still useful as a writing check: a word at 6% or more usually means you are repeating yourself.

What are stop words?

Common function words like "the", "and" and "of". They dominate any frequency count without telling you anything, so they are filtered out by default. Turn the filter off if you want the raw distribution.

Does it handle accented and hyphenated words?

Yes. "Café" is counted as one word rather than being split at the accent, and "well-known" stays a single term rather than becoming two.

What word frequency actually tells you

Ranking the words in a piece of writing is an old SEO habit that has outlived its original purpose. Search engines no longer count keyword repetitions, and writing to hit a density target produces worse copy that ranks no better.

What the count is still good for is editing. Seeing that you used “essentially” eleven times, or that a supposedly wide-ranging article circles the same three nouns, is genuinely useful feedback. It also confirms at a glance whether a page is actually about the topic you intended.

Reading the numbers

Density is the word's share of all counted words after filtering. For a typical article, a main topic word landing somewhere between 0.5% and 2.5% is unremarkable. Much above that and the repetition is usually noticeable to a reader; much below it and the page may not be as focused as you think.

For overall length and reading time, use the word counter. To check a title or description against search result limits, use the meta tag generator.

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