Find repeated words in an essay
Essay Repetition Checker highlights word families that meet a repeat-count threshold and have nearby uses. It checks the text in your browser and lets you edit uses in context.
Open Essay Repetition CheckerPaste a complete passage
Use a paragraph or section rather than an isolated sentence so you can judge the rhythm and meaning. Keep the original draft in your main editor.
Review the pattern
Look at nearby uses as well as the total frequency. Minimum repeats and Nearby distance work together. Word-family grouping can reveal a habit that is harder to see when each inflected form is counted separately.
Revise in context
Shorten or combine sentences when that is clearer than changing a word. Read the revision aloud and check that a replacement has the intended meaning. Review again for patterns introduced by the edit.
Repetition is not automatically a mistake
Technical terms, names and the subject of an argument often need to repeat. Deliberate repetition can also create emphasis. The aim is a clearer paragraph, not a page with no highlights.
How a word becomes highlighted
A word family must meet both Minimum repeats and Nearby distance: it needs enough uses in the text and at least two uses close enough together. The defaults are three uses and a distance of 60 words. A frequent term spread evenly through a long essay may therefore stay unhighlighted. If results are empty, check those settings before assuming the passage has no repeated vocabulary.
Example: revise the sentence, not every noun
Original: “The study measures response time. The study also compares the results across devices.” Revised: “The study measures response time and compares the results across devices.” Combining the shared subject removes an unnecessary repeat without substituting a less precise synonym. For a technical term repeated because it is the subject of the passage, keeping the term can be the clearer choice.
Exclude a necessary term and keep reviewing
Ignore a required term when it is distracting from more useful patterns. Then inspect the remaining highlights in context. Lowering Minimum repeats or increasing Nearby distance broadens what can appear; it does not make a word objectively overused. After editing, reread the whole paragraph to check the argument and rhythm, not just whether a highlight disappeared.