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Count occurrences

Count how many times a word or phrase appears in your text.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Count occurrences?

Count how many times a word or phrase appears in your text.

When would I actually use this?

Fitting a piece to a limit: an essay to a word count, a post to a network's cap, a meta description to what a result page will show.

What is the most common mistake?

Assuming one character equals one unit of the limit. An emoji can cost two or more, a combining accent can cost two, and several platforms bill a link at a flat rate regardless of length.

What else is filed next to it?

Character frequency counter, Vowel & consonant counter and Lipogram checker share its section. They are not variants of it — being filed together is not the same as being alike — but that is where to look if this turned out not to be the tool you wanted.

Where do the figures come from?

Counting follows Unicode: the tool reports code points and grapheme clusters separately, because they differ for emoji and combining marks. Per-network limits come from each platform's published specification.

Further reading

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ExplainerCounting Words Is Ambiguous, and Every Tool Answers DifferentlyA word count is a definition, not a measurement. We counted the same paragraph four ways and got 25, 28, 33 and 38 — then counted 50,000 characters of ordinary prose and got agreement to within 4.5%. The gap is entirely driven by compounds, figures and URLs.ExplainerWord Frequency and Zipf's Law: We Counted Six Books in Six Languages and Fitted the SlopeThe nth most common word appears about 1/n as often as the first. We counted six public-domain books, printed rank × frequency, fitted log frequency against log rank, and got slopes between -1.02 and -1.08 in all six languages — plus the two places the law breaks.ExplainerWhere a Line May Break: The Unicode Algorithm Behind Every Wrapped Paragraph"Break at spaces" fails in most of the world's writing systems. UAX #14 gives every character a line-break class; we looked ours up in Unicode 17.0.0 and ran a conforming implementation over no-break spaces, soft hyphens, zero-width spaces, URLs, Japanese and Thai.How-toFiltering Lines by a Pattern Without a Command LineThis is grep for people who do not use grep, with one important difference: the match is a plain substring, so a real regular expression returns an empty box and no error. Every claim here was checked by running the tool.GuideFormatting Numbers for Six Languages: Separators, Currency and the Parse Back1,234.56 and 1.234,56 are the same number, and confusing them changes the value a reader parses. We ran Intl.NumberFormat for all six site locales and printed every separator — including the invisible one French uses — then measured why parseFloat cannot undo any of it.ExplainerEmoji Are Harder Than They Look: Why "Just Strip the Emoji" Has No One-Line AnswerOne visible emoji can be one code point or fourteen UTF-16 units. We ran three popular regexes against a real sentence and each broke differently — one deleted the digits. Here is why, which Unicode property answers which question, and the grapheme-cluster rule that actually works.