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Writer's Haven => Quill and Feather Pub [Public] => Topic started by: Dennis Chekalov on January 25, 2021, 01:50:57 PM
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Any reliable word repetition checkers? :icon_think:
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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?
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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)
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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.
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I like this: WordClouds (https://www.wordclouds.com/)
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.
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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.
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Word shows them to me as I go along.
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Word shows them to me as I go along.
How? Do you use an add-on?
Cheers,
R.C.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thank you all very much! :mhk9U91:
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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?
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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.