Echo Finder
Repetition checker · Word echo finder for scripts
Writers all have "tic" words they repeat without noticing,the same verb, noun, or adjective showing up again and again in a scene.
Paste your scene text below. The tool ignores function words (the, a, and, but, etc.) and highlights content words (verbs, nouns, adjectives) that appear more than three times close together so you can spot echoes and vary your wording.
Runs entirely in your browser. A small script counts word frequency and the distance between occurrences; only words that repeat at least four times with at least one pair of occurrences within 50 words are flagged.
How it works
The algorithm tokenizes your text and filters out stopwords (articles, conjunctions, pronouns, common auxiliaries). For each remaining word it records every position. A word is flagged as an "echo" if it appears at least four times and at least two of those occurrences are within 50 words of each other. Highlighting is done in your browser; no data is sent to any server.
From echoes to full structure
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