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Paste your text to see the most frequent content words and their density. Common function words are excluded, so what surfaces is the vocabulary the piece genuinely repeats.
density = uses of a term ÷ total words × 100
A short stop-word list removes articles, prepositions, pronouns and auxiliary verbs. Everything else is counted as written, so plural and singular forms are treated as different words.
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Most frequent content word — 2 uses, 3.33% density across 60 words.
A word appearing at unusual density is either the argument or a crutch. If the most frequent content word in a 2,000-word essay is neither the topic nor a key concept, the draft has drifted, and the frequency list finds that faster than rereading does. For coursework this is a revision tool, not an SEO one — the metric was borrowed from search-engine writing and behaves differently on argument prose.
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Counts, readability scores and citation formats are guides. Your institution's word-count rule and its preferred style-guide edition override anything shown here.