Keyword Density Checker

Keyword density is the share of a text's words taken up by one keyword: (times the keyword appears ÷ total word count) × 100. A word used 12 times in a 600-word article has a density of 2%. This tool runs that calculation for your most frequent words, counting every word — stop-words included — in the total.

There's no magic percentage, and chasing one is outdated practice — but the extremes are real. A target keyword absent from your top terms suggests the article isn't actually about it; a single phrase at 4–5% reads as stuffing to both readers and ranking systems. Natural coverage of a topic usually lands its key terms at 1–2%.

Yes — Google's spam policies explicitly name keyword stuffing, and unnaturally repetitive text has been devalued for over a decade. Modern ranking looks at topical coverage and synonyms rather than raw repetition, so covering related terms naturally beats repeating one phrase mechanically.

Stop-words are the grammatical scaffolding — the, and, is, of — that appears constantly in all English text regardless of topic. Left in, they'd occupy every top ranking and bury the informative terms. Filtering them means the table shows what your text is about, not how English works.

Certainly — paste any published text to see which terms it emphasizes and roughly how it targets search intent. Comparing a top-ranking page's term profile against your own draft often reveals subtopics you covered thinly, which is a more useful takeaway than copying its exact percentages.