Keyword Density Checker

The Uses column is a word frequency count: how many times each word or phrase appears. The Density column expresses the same number as a share of the total word count. Frequency tells you what you repeat; density tells you how heavily, relative to the length of the piece.

Which one you want depends on the job. For editing — finding the crutch words, checking a translation is consistent, seeing what a speech is really about — read the frequency column and leave the single-word view selected. For SEO work, density is the figure people quote, though it is worth reading why it stopped being a ranking factor before treating it as a target.

The table is sorted by use, so the top row is the term your text leans on hardest. Two things are usually worth acting on.

A term far above the rest. If your main phrase appears three times as often as anything else, the writing probably repeats itself. Replacing some instances with pronouns or synonyms almost always reads better.

A missing term. If the phrase you are writing about does not appear in the top ten, the article may be circling its subject without ever naming it — a genuine problem for both readers and search engines. Enter it in the target keyword field to see the exact count.

1. Write the piece without thinking about density at all.
2. Paste it here and look at the one-word list. Does it describe the subject?
3. Switch to two- and three-word phrases. These reveal the phrasings you repeat without noticing.
4. Fix the outliers: one dominant term, or an important term that is absent.
5. Check the readability afterwards, since replacing words changes how it reads.

Writing to hit a density number produces worse text than writing for a reader and then checking the number. Full reasoning inwhat is keyword density.