advanced word counting

I'm editing my newest novel now and I notice that I'm reusing the same phrases and words over and over. This is something I want to avoid as far as possible.

Is there a tool out there which analyses a text and lists the most common words and phrases. It must be such a stupidly simple program to make that I refuse to believe that it hasn't been done already. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a function that can be found in word itself, only that I can't find it.

Does anybody know about such a program or know how I can do it in word?

thanks

Dawnstorm said:

I quite like TextStat.

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This is actually really good. I can find often occurring words and then search phrases their in and get statistics on it... which I wouldn't mind would be automatic. But this is fairly good. Thanks a lot. ++++

RJK said:

If you want to find repeated words and phrases that you haven't recognized, there is a subscription service I use where this is one of the features. It will identify repeated words and phrases, and highlighting them for you. It is up to you, what you wish to do with them. The program/service is called Autocrit .

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Looks really useful. Thanks