How are words counted?

Text is lowercased and split on Unicode word boundaries, so letters and digits form tokens and punctuation is dropped. Leading and trailing apostrophes are trimmed. Each distinct token is then tallied and ranked by count.

Stop words are very common words such as the, and, of, to, and is that usually carry little meaning for analysis. Removing them surfaces the content-bearing vocabulary. You can disable removal to count everything.

What format is the CSV?

Three columns: rank, word, and count, with a header row. Words containing commas or quotes are properly escaped, so the file opens cleanly in Excel, Google Sheets, or any CSV reader.

Is there a size limit?

There is no hard limit, but very large files (tens of megabytes) may be slow because everything runs in your browser tab. For typical documents and articles it is instant.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Reading, counting, and CSV generation all happen locally in your browser. Your text never leaves your device.

Word Frequency to CSV Exporter

The Word Frequency to CSV Exporter counts how often each word appears in a body of text and hands you a clean, ranked CSV you can open in a spreadsheet. It is handy for content analysis, SEO keyword checks, readability work, and digital humanities text studies — all without uploading anything.

How it works

The tool tokenizes your text using Unicode word boundaries: it lowercases everything, then captures runs of letters and digits as words while discarding punctuation and whitespace. Leading and trailing apostrophes are trimmed so 'word' becomes word.

Each token is counted into a frequency map, then the results are sorted by count (ties broken alphabetically) and ranked. If stop-word removal is enabled, a built-in list of common English function words is skipped before counting, so your top results reflect meaningful vocabulary rather than filler.

CSV format

The export has three columns and a header row:

rank,word,count
1,example,42
2,frequency,37

Any word containing a comma or quote is escaped with double quotes per the CSV standard, so the file imports cleanly into Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or pandas.

Tips and notes

For keyword research, turn stop-word removal on to focus on the terms that actually describe your content. For stylometry or linguistic analysis, turn it off so function words are preserved. The preview shows the top 50 words, but the downloaded CSV always contains every unique word in the text. Because everything runs locally, you can safely process private or sensitive documents.