Quick answer: A word cloud counts how often each word appears in a text, then draws the most frequent words larger than the rest, so the shape of the text is visible at a glance. Common words such as “the” and “and” are removed automatically, and the layout is calculated in your browser from text you paste.
Paste an essay, speech, article or any block of text, and this tool counts how often each word appears, then draws the most frequent ones as a cloud, with more frequent words shown larger. Common words such as "the" and "and" are left out automatically so the result reflects the content, not grammar.
Everything is calculated in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere.
How the sizing works
Each word is counted across your whole text, ignoring case and a fixed list of very common English words (a, the, and, of, and similar). The words are then sorted by count, and the most frequent word is drawn largest; others scale down from there. Words are placed outward from the center in a spiral until they no longer overlap already-placed words.
A worked example
Example. Pasting a speech that repeats "freedom" and "future" throughout produces a cloud where those two words dominate visually, while one-off words stay small, giving a quick sense of the text’s focus without reading it in full.
Real-world examples
A teacher pastes a class of student essays on the same prompt into the tool to see, at a glance, which ideas and words came up most often across the group.
A speaker rehearsing a talk pastes the transcript in to check whether one word or phrase is repeated more than intended before the real delivery.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Pasting text with a lot of repeated boilerplate, such as a page header on every paragraph, which can dominate the cloud with words that are not the real subject.
- Expecting punctuation-heavy or symbol-heavy text to work well. The tool splits on letters, so numbers, code and symbols are not counted as words.
- Choosing too many words to show. Above about 60 words, a cloud usually becomes crowded and harder to read at a glance.
Frequently asked questions
Why are words like "the" and "and" missing?
They are filtered out on purpose. These common words would otherwise dominate every word cloud without saying anything about the content.
Can I control how many words are shown?
Yes, choose 25 to 80 words from the dropdown. Fewer words gives a cleaner, more readable cloud.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The word count and layout are calculated entirely in your browser.
Does it work with languages other than English?
The word-splitting works on any Latin-alphabet text, but the filtered common-word list is English only, so non-English text will include its own common words.
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