Latex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects
I was revising my proposal defense and kept feeling like I was repeating the same term. In a typical LaTeX project split across many .tex files, it’s awkward to get a quick, clean word-frequency view without gluing everything together or counting LaTeX commands/math as “words”. So I built latex-wc, a small Python CLI that: - extracts tokens from LaTeX while ignoring common LaTeX “noise” (commands, comments, math, refs/cites, etc.) - can take a single .tex file or a directory and recursively scan all *.tex files - prints a combined report once (total words, unique words, top-N…
Latex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects launched on February 3, 2026 with 10 votes, #1,046 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Latex-wc is a Python command-line tool that analyzes word frequency in LaTeX projects. It processes single files or entire directories of .tex files, filtering out LaTeX commands, math notation, comments, and citations to count only actual words. The tool generates reports showing total word count, unique words, and top-frequency terms, helping writers identify repeated language across multi-file documents.
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From the sources
PyPI package for getting real word count from `.tex` files - sethbarrett50/LaTeX-wc
A small CLI tool that counts words in LaTeX .tex files while trying to ignore LaTeX “noise”: Heuristic by design: the goal is a human-ish word count, not a TeX-perfect parse. uvx latex-wc ./tex/ Option B: Install as a persistent tool with uv uv tool install latex-wc latex-wc ./paper.tex Upgrade later: uv tool upgrade latex-wc Option C: Install as a persistent tool with pipx pipx install latex-wc latex-wc ./paper.tex Upgrade later: latex-wc ./paper.tex latex-wc ./thesis/ # recursively counts all *.tex under ./thesis (one combined report) Backwards-compatible flag --document-path is still supported (positional PATH wins if both are provided): latex-wc --document-path ./paper.tex latex-wc…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I was revising my proposal defense and kept feeling like I was repeating the same term. In a typical LaTeX project split across many .tex files, it’s awkward to get a quick, clean word-frequency view without gluing everything together or counting LaTeX commands/math as “words”. So I built latex-wc, a small…
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