Find Duplicate Words in Text
Paste your text to see which words repeat and exactly how many times, ranked from most frequent down. A separate amber banner flags accidental back-to-back doubles like 'the the', and you can fold case or raise the minimum count to hide words that appear only once or twice.
How to find duplicate words
- Paste or type your text into the 'Your text' box.
- Leave 'Ignore case' ticked to merge 'The' and 'the', or untick it to count each casing on its own.
- Set 'Minimum count' to control how many times a word must appear to be listed (the floor is 2).
- Read the ranked 'Repeated words' list, where each row shows the word and its count.
- Check the 'Consecutive doubles' banner for immediate repeats, then use Copy list to export the words and counts as tab-separated rows.
Examples
Rank repeats and flag doubles
We we should fix the the obvious obvious typo.
Repeated: obvious (2), the (2), we (2). Consecutive doubles: we we, the the, obvious obvious.
Case folding merges Apple, apple and APPLE
Apple apple APPLE banana banana
Repeated: apple (3), banana (2). Consecutive doubles: apple apple, banana banana.
Raise the minimum count to 3 to hide lighter repeats
red red green green green
Repeated: green (3). red (only 2) is hidden below the threshold.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a single word?
The text is split on any character that is not a Unicode letter or number, so punctuation and symbols act as boundaries. That means 'cat.' and 'cat' are the same word, unlike the Remove Duplicate Words tool where punctuation stays attached.
How is the repeated-words list ordered?
Words are sorted by count from highest to lowest, and ties are broken alphabetically. In 'obvious the we', all three appear twice, so they list in alphabetical order.
Does case matter?
You decide with the Ignore case checkbox. On (the default) it folds 'The' and 'the' into one entry counted together; off, each spelling is tracked and counted separately.
What does the minimum count filter do?
It hides any word appearing fewer times than the threshold. The default and floor is 2, so unique words never clutter the list, and raising it to 3 or more surfaces only your heaviest repeats.
What are consecutive doubles?
They are immediate back-to-back repeats such as 'the the' or 'is is', a classic editing typo. They are detected case-insensitively, shown lowercased in the amber banner, and listed once each even if the same double occurs twice.
Why might a word show in the banner but not in the main list?
The consecutive-doubles check ignores your minimum count, so a pair like 'so so' is flagged even if 'so' only occurs those two times and your threshold hides it from the ranked list.
Can I export the results?
Yes. Copy list puts each repeated word and its count on its own line, separated by a tab, which pastes cleanly into a spreadsheet as two columns.
How do I actually remove the repeats instead of just finding them?
This tool only reports duplicates. To rewrite text so each word appears once, use the Remove Duplicate Words tool, which keeps the first occurrence and drops the rest.
Is my text private?
Yes. All counting happens locally in your browser and nothing is sent to a server, so drafts and confidential documents stay on your device.
Learn more
- Catch repeated words and doubles in your writing
Why repeated words creep into drafts, how to tell useful repetition from clutter, and how counts and consecutive-double detection help you edit.
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