Word repetition checker?

[Dennis Chekalov]

Any reliable word repetition checkers? 

[VanessaC]

I believe that Pro Writing Aid and Grammarly (premium) both have this function.

At the moment I have Pro Writing aid - there's an "overused" and "repeats" tab you can select. As with pretty much every tool, it seems to flag up false positives, but might be worth a look?

[Simon Haynes]

Some word processors allow Regex searches. I think word and libre/openoffice. If so, search for this:

\b(\w+)\s+\1\b

(Googled it because I couldn't remember the code)

[cecilia_writer]

I happened to run a spellcheck this morning in MS Word as I had done a 'replace' I thought had gone wrong, and it surprised me by picking up on a duplicated word as well.

[R. C.]

I like this: WordClouds

Cheers,
R.C.

UPDATE

If the question is: Which words are overused, use a word cloud. There are several free options.  I like the one above because it is wasy to use and has no word limit. I have pasted an 80k word manuscript and it told me which words were over used.

If the question is: Where did I use the wrong word, I use several options. Grammarly. MS Word Editor. When all else fails, highlight the word, <shift>F7 and compare the word I wrote to the list of synonyms.

[R. C.]

I believe that Pro Writing Aid and Grammarly (premium) both have this function.
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FYI - I have Grammarly Premium.

I search the MS Word add-on and used the Googles - I can't find a repetitive word count in Grammarly.

Cheers,
R.C.

[TimothyEllis]

Word shows them to me as I go along.

[R. C.]

Word shows them to me as I go along.

How? Do you use an add-on?

Cheers,
R.C.

[TimothyEllis]

Word shows them to me as I go along.

How? Do you use an add-on?

No. It's an option somewhere. You turn it on and it grammar checks everything, and puts a red wavy line under duplicated words. (Might be blue.)

Most of the grammar it recommends is total crap, but it gets the duplicated words just fine.

[Hopscotch]

If the OP has in mind a checker that points out how often the most often words are used rather than just words used in repetition by mistake, I'd like to hear solutions, too.  I use MSWord "find" to count words and phrases I suspect I use too often, then I edit down.  But I'd prefer a global checker to discover words I don't suspect.  WordClouds looks good but not quite as specific as I'd like.

[TimothyEllis]

If the OP has in mind a checker that points out how often the most often words are used rather than just words used in repetition by mistake,

That needs clarification, because I assumed the latter.

This is is a problem.<<--- That's what I thought we were talking about.

If its how many times you use the word 'then' in the whole book, I used to search for it, and Word would tell you how many. Then check each one for if it was needed or not.

[Dennis Chekalov]

Thank you all very much!   

[Simon Haynes]

yWriter shows you a list of all the words in your document with a usage count beside each one. Last time I mentioned this I think someone said Scrivener does the same?

[okey dokey]

I'm careful with the checkers.
I might tag a character with speech patterns.
Whenever she says "exactly" the reader knows immediately who is talking.