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Word & Phrase Frequency Counters

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:12 pm
by Misplaced
Let's face, we all have our favorite words and phrases when we're writing. And if we're trying to get a piece finished by a deadline, they can be a "default" that we use without thinking about it. Of course, our dear betas can catch them for us, but if you want to see what you might be overusing before you send it off to be torn apart by your beta, here are a couple of great online tools:

Phrase Frequency Counter
Word Frequency Counter

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Re: Word & Phrase Frequency Counters

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:49 am
by Aquarius
I like this, Misplaced--especially the idea of trying to suss this stuff out *before* one hands it off to the beta reader!

Re: Word & Phrase Frequency Counters

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:45 am
by Kathy Rose
I'll have to try these. I have a tendency to re-use certain phrases. Most of the time I catch it when I re-read what I've written, but sometimes not.

Re: Word & Phrase Frequency Counters

PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:29 pm
by Glory1863
This is for fun more than for empiric data, but some of you who are both writers and artists might enjoy playing with it.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds