Find repeated phrases in your own draft

How it works

Unicode letters, numbers, and apostrophes are lowercased into tokens, then every overlapping window of the selected length is counted. Repeated windows sort by occurrence count and stop after the first 30.

• Five words is the initial window because it is long enough to expose phrase reuse while remaining editable.
• This measures self-repetition only; it cannot establish originality against published material.

Worked example

											Text: Clear writing uses concrete words. Strong writing uses concrete words and direct examples.
Phrase words: 3
										

												Phrase                 Occurrences
---------------------  -----------
writing uses concrete  2
uses concrete words    2
											

When to use this

Authors locate stock phrases, editors spot duplicated revision fragments, and students review patchwriting patterns before performing a real source comparison.

Edge cases

• Alternating text such as one two one two creates overlapping repeated windows.
• Capitalization and surrounding punctuation do not make otherwise identical phrases distinct.
• A passage copied once from an external source produces no finding unless the same phrase also repeats within the submitted draft.