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.
Two kinds of word repetition
Not all repetition is a mistake, so it helps to separate two kinds. The first is accidental doubling, where a word is typed twice in a row, usually after an edit or a distracted moment, producing 'the the' or 'and and'. The second is overuse, where a word is spread across a passage and quietly dominates it, like leaning on 'really' or 'basically' in every other sentence. This tool handles both: the amber banner catches the immediate doubles, and the ranked list with counts exposes overuse.
How the counting works under the hood
The text is broken into tokens wherever a non-letter and non-number character appears, so hyphens, commas and line breaks all end a word. Each token is counted in a map, optionally after being lowercased so casing variants merge. Words that meet your minimum count are then sorted by frequency and, when tied, alphabetically. Because splitting is punctuation-aware, contractions like 'don't' become two pieces ('don' and 't'), which is worth remembering when a short fragment shows up unexpectedly.
Using the minimum count as a focus dial
The minimum count is really a noise filter. Left at 2, you see every word that appears more than once, which is thorough but busy on long documents. Nudging it to 3, 4 or higher trims the list down to the words you truly lean on, making patterns jump out. This is the fastest way to audit a blog post or essay for crutch words without reading it line by line, since the heaviest offenders float to the top.
What the tool cannot judge for you
A frequency count is a signal, not a verdict. Common function words such as 'the', 'a' and 'of' will always rank high, and that is normal and correct English, so a high count is not automatically a problem. The tool also cannot recognize synonyms or repeated ideas phrased differently, and it treats 'run' and 'running' as separate words. Read the flagged words in context before cutting them, and treat consecutive doubles as near-certain typos worth fixing every time.