Word cloud generator
Turn text into a picture where the most frequent words are the largest.
- Runs in your browser — your text is never sent anywhere
- No sign-up, no quotas, free to use as often as you like
How it works
A word cloud is a quick way to see what a piece of text is mostly about: survey responses, reviews, meeting notes, a chapter. It is a summary at a glance rather than an analysis, and it is most useful when you have more text than you want to read.
How words are sized
Size follows frequency. Common filler words — the, and, of, is, that and around a hundred others — are excluded, because otherwise they dominate every cloud and tell you nothing. Words shorter than three letters and bare numbers are skipped for the same reason.
Placement
Words are placed from the centre outwards along a spiral, each one tested against those already placed so nothing overlaps. Larger words settle near the middle simply because they are placed first.
What a word cloud cannot tell you
It counts words in isolation, so it cannot distinguish praise from complaint, and it separates related words like “delay” and “delays”. Treat it as a way of noticing what to look into rather than as a finding in itself. The word frequency counter on this site gives the underlying numbers.
The image
A 1200 × 675 pixel PNG, which suits a slide or a document. It is generated in your browser and the text never goes anywhere — which matters, since survey responses and meeting notes are exactly the kind of thing people paste into these tools carelessly.
Word cloud generator — questions
Are common words excluded?
Yes. About a hundred filler words are ignored, along with very short words and bare numbers.
Why are similar words counted separately?
It counts exact words, so plurals and variants are separate. The word frequency tool shows the raw counts.
What size is the image?
1200 × 675 pixels, saved as PNG.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The cloud is drawn in your browser.