I'm looking for a tool that goes through a text file and makes a list of all the words in it and the number of times each word occurs. Does anyone know such a tool? There are online tools but I don't want to paste my entire novel to a website.
Tool to count occurrences of all words?
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I know there's one of these that gives you that visual of words in different size boxes, but I'm not sure how to find it. In the meantime, I believe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.writewords.org.uk/word_count.asp
http://www.writewords.org.uk/word_count.asp
Thx, but as I said: There are online tools but I don't want to paste my entire novel to a website.
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You can use a linguistic corpora analysis tool like this one, though that too is likely overkill.
When I follow the steps I linked to earlier, I get an alphabetical list of words with a count. It does include everything though, even words like a and the.
When I follow the steps I linked to earlier, I get an alphabetical list of words with a count. It does include everything though, even words like a and the.
If you can be bothered to massage a copy of the file so that it's all lower-case, one word per line, and no punctuation, this page has a Powershell one-liner that should do the job: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/timid/2009/08/21/powershell-one-liner-sort-uniq-c/ (drop the last command in the chain to get all the words instead of just the first 10). If you have no idea what Powershell is, this is probably not a good method for you.
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