Word and phrase counter (for line edits)

[shxinny]

Posting this here for myself as much as anyone else.

Apparently if you copy and paste your manuscript this website will be able to spit out a list of words with frequency counts and *phrases* with frequency counts which might be good come time to weed out the crutch words/phrases

http://www.writewords.org.uk/phrase_count.asp
http://www.writewords.org.uk/word_count.asp

[asydneygirl]

I've always wanted to use one of these, but I don't know... I've never been comfortable with copying my work into some unknown website... is that silly?

[fj3k]

That's not necessarily silly. I'm not doubting the integrity of writewords.org.uk necessarily, but there are many bad actors on the internet. I wrote my own so that I didn't have to send my work to an unknown location to be processed and potentially compromised.

https://jamesivan.com/writer/wordcounter.html

It does all the work on your machine; nothing gets sent over the internet. You don't have take my word for it, hit F12 and check the network tab as you type: only the original load will ever be listed. (Test it with something not-precious first, obviously.)

If you're especially paranoid, you can save it to your local machine and open it from there. That way the browser will block anything from being sent to the internet. (Internet service providers have been known to inject advertising into web-pages before, and once or twice these have leaked data.)