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Repeated words

Two different problems, told apart rather than mixed together: a word you have leaned on too often, and a word accidentally typed twice in a row. The second one is a typo your eye skips straight over — it gets its own list.

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frequency · doubles
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stop words · length
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density & context
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Worth knowing

Two different kinds of repetition

Using “however” nine times in an article is a style question you might decide is fine. Typing “the the” is simply wrong. Tools that pour both into one list bury the second in the first, so they are separated here.

Density is a symptom, not a target

Keyword density has not been a ranking factor for many years, and writing to hit a percentage reads badly. It is shown because a word at 4–5% is usually a genuine sign you have repeated yourself, not because a number needs hitting.

Stop words are hidden, not deleted

Filler words like the and of dominate any frequency count and tell you nothing, so they are filtered out of the table by default. They still count toward the totals, and doubled stop words are still reported — that is where “the the” lives.

Hyphens and apostrophes stay intact

state-of-the-art is one word and don't is one word. Splitting purely on punctuation would count don and t separately and quietly inflate every total.

Case folding is a choice

By default Apple and apple are the same word, which is what you want when checking for repetition. Turn on case sensitivity when the capitalisation is the point — a brand name, or code.

Nothing is uploaded

Everything runs in this tab. Unpublished drafts and client copy are exactly the kind of text that should not be posted to a third-party server to be counted.