Popular word finder

With this online tool, you can find the most common words in any text. The program runs through all the words in the text and in the output, it prints the count of their occurrences. The information about the most popular words often gives clues about the topic, language, and purpose of the text. For example, if the most common words are "disco", "music", and "dance", then it's most likely text about dancing. If the most common words are "the", "a", and "is", then the text is most likely written in the English language, and if the most common word are "di", "che", and "la", then the text is most likely in Italian. Even the information about a single word can tell a lot about the text. For example, if the most popular word in the text is "charity", then most likely the purpose of the text is to help those who need it. In addition to printing single-word statistics, this tool can also analyze the frequency of multi-word phrases in the text. You can choose to analyze combinations of two, three, or more words, and the tool will display the distribution of n-word groups. For example, if the input text is "Owls hoot in the dark." then the program will generate four word pairs (also called word bigrams) – "Owls hoot", "hoot in", "in the", and "the dark", and if the word group size is 3 (called word trigrams), then there will be three word triplets – "Owls hoot in", "hoot in the", and "in the dark". You can also choose in the options (via the "Stop at Sentence Boundary") whether to create a stream of words from neighboring sentences to form joint groups or not. For example, if the input text is "Long cat is red. Short cat is black.", then with this option on, the bigrams would be "Long cat", "cat is", "is red", "Short cat", "cat is", "is black". But with this option off, the full-stop is ignored and the bigrams would be "Long cat", "cat is", "is red", "red Short", "Short cat", "cat is", "is black". In this example, the words maintained their sentence case but by enabling the "Ignore Word Case" option, you can analyze all words in lowercase. You can also exclude or replace punctuation marks in the text before analysis. For example, if a word is wrapped in parentheses "(owl)" then you can remove the parentheses by entering them in the "Punctuation to Delete" option. If a word contains internal punctuation, such as hyphenation in the word "full-scale", then you can replace the hyphen "-" with a space and analyze this word as two separate words "full" and "scale". In addition to the total number of words in the text, you can also display their usage percentage and print a fractional representation of each word's number of uses relative to the total number of words in the text. Additionally, you can sort the output words alphabetically or by the usage counts. Textabulous!