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Filler Word Counter

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Count filler words like actually, basically, and really to improve speaking and writing.

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Actually, basically, really, just, these words add essentially no information to a sentence, removing most of them changes nothing about what's actually being said, yet they creep into both spoken speech as a nervous verbal habit and writing as a reflexive hedge, and neither shows up in an ordinary word frequency count as anything worth flagging on its own. This tool counts filler words specifically, a named category of words that pad a sentence without adding meaning, rather than treating them as just another word in a general frequency count.

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Useful for cleaning filler words out of a script before recording a video or a podcast, spotting a hedging habit creeping into professional writing, or tightening a speech or a presentation by cutting words that were never actually doing any work.

Key features

  • Clean interface
  • Fast processing
  • No signup required
  • Works offline

Quick answers for Filler Word Counter

Which filler words does it look for?
A list of about twenty common ones, including um, uh, like, you know, basically, actually, literally, and honestly.
Does it catch filler phrases, not just single words?
Yes, multi-word fillers like "you know" and "at the end of the day" are matched as whole phrases, not split into separate words.
How are the results broken down?
Each filler word or phrase found is listed with its own count, sorted from most to least frequent, plus a total count at the top.