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Free Keyword Extractor

Find the top keywords and phrases in content.

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What is the Keyword Extractor?

What is a page actually about? The answer is in the words it uses most — and pulling those out reveals the topics a piece of content emphasizes, whether it's your own draft or a competitor's page you want to understand.

This keyword extractor analyzes any content and lists its most important single words and multi-word phrases, with counts and density.

Last updated: Aug 12, 2026

What does this tool do?

You paste text and the tool counts terms, filters out common stop words, and ranks the most frequent meaningful keywords and phrases.

You can switch between single words and two- or three-word phrases, so you see both the core terms and the specific phrases a page leans on.

Key features

Top keywords

The most frequent meaningful terms, ranked.

Phrase extraction

Two- and three-word phrases, not just single words.

Counts and density

See how often each term appears and its share.

Stop words filtered

Ignores filler like 'the' and 'and'.

Private

Your content is analyzed in your browser.

Example

Input
A blog post about home coffee brewing.
Processing
The tool tallies terms and ranks them by frequency.
Output
Top keywords like 'coffee', 'brew', 'grind size', 'pour over'.

Common use cases

  • SEO specialistsSee what terms a page emphasizes.
  • Content writersCheck a draft covers its target topic.
  • Competitor analystsUnderstand a rival page's focus.
  • EditorsSpot over-used or missing terms.
  • MarketersExtract themes from customer feedback.
  • ResearchersFind the key terms in a document.
  • StudentsSummarize a text's main topics.
  • TranslatorsCheck terminology consistency.

Benefits

  • It reveals what content is really about at a glance.
  • Phrase mode captures specific multi-word terms.
  • Filtering stop words keeps the list meaningful.
  • Your content never leaves the browser.

Tips

  • Paste a competitor's page text to see the terms they target.
  • Use phrase mode to find specific long-tail terms.
  • Compare your draft's top terms against your target keyword.
  • High density on one term may signal keyword stuffing.
  • Extracted keywords make good headings and internal-link anchors.
  • Combine with the keyword generator to expand the terms you find.
  • Clean the text of navigation and boilerplate for cleaner results.
  • Write for readers first; use this as a check, not a target.

Common mistakes to avoid

Including navigation and boilerplate

Fix: Paste just the main content so menus and footers don't skew results.

Chasing high density

Fix: Over-repeating a term reads badly and can hurt SEO — aim for natural use.

Only looking at single words

Fix: Phrase mode reveals the specific multi-word terms that matter.

Treating it as volume data

Fix: It shows frequency in your text, not how often people search the term.

How it works

  1. 1

    Paste content

    Add the text to analyze.

  2. 2

    See the keywords

    Top words and phrases are ranked.

  3. 3

    Act on it

    Spot focus terms and gaps.

Frequently asked questions

The most frequent meaningful single words and two- and three-word phrases, with their counts and density, ignoring common stop words.

Paste their page's text and it shows the terms they emphasize.

The most frequent meaningful single words and two- and three-word phrases, with their counts and density, ignoring common stop words.

Paste their page's text and it shows the terms they emphasize.

No. It's how often a term appears in your text, not how often people search it.

The extractor finds terms already in your content; the generator invents new keyword ideas from a seed.

There's no magic number — write naturally and use this to catch stuffing or gaps.

No. Analysis runs entirely in your browser.

Conclusion

A keyword extractor shows what a page is really about, for your content or a competitor's. Pair it with the keyword generator and SEO audit to plan and refine your pages.

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