Duplicate Word Finder

Paste your text to catch accidental doubled words such as "the the" and to see which words you repeat most often. Click any word to highlight every place it appears, and remove doubled words in one click.

How to use the Duplicate Word Finder

1. Paste or type your text. Results update instantly as you type.
2. Check doubled words: they are marked in red in the highlighted text and listed under Doubled words.
3. Click Remove doubled words to delete every second copy at once, or fix them by hand.
4. Look at Repeated words to see which words you use most. Click a word to highlight every occurrence.
5. Fine-tune with Ignore stop words, minimum word length, case sensitivity and the close-repeat distance, then copy or download the list.

Doubled words, repeated words and close repeats

Some doubled words are grammatically correct, for example "I knew that that was wrong" or "What it is is a problem". Check each highlighted pair before removing it, or use Undo after the one-click fix.

How words are counted

A word is a run of letters or digits, and words joined by an apostrophe such as don't count as one word. Comparison ignores upper and lower case unless Case-sensitive is on. The Share column is the word's count divided by all counted words (after stop words and short words are excluded), times 100. Numbers on their own are never reported as repeated words.

Tips for reducing repetition

• Replace a repeated noun with a pronoun (it, they) once the reader knows what you mean.
• Use a synonym, but only when it means exactly the same thing; in technical writing, keeping one consistent term is often clearer.
• Merge two sentences that start with the same subject.
• Delete filler words that tend to repeat, such as really, just, actually and basically.

Frequently asked questions

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