Across the whole manuscript
A repetition checker that reads the whole book, not one page
Close echoes, crutch words, repeated sentence openers, and the pet phrases that only become visible when something looks at all your chapters at once.
- Whole book
- Patterns that no single chapter would reveal.
- Stemmed
- walked, walking, and walks count as one echo.
- Speech verbs ignored
- "said" repeating is correct craft, not an error.
A phrase used three times in one chapter is a tic in that scene. The same phrase once per chapter across nine chapters is your fingerprint, and it is invisible to any tool that only ever sees one document at a time.
Close echoes
The same content word twice within about a sentence or two, which is the distance at which a reader actually hears it.
Repeated sentence openers
Three or more sentences in a row starting the same way. "She rose. She crossed. She waited."
Pet phrases across chapters
Recurring multi-word phrases counted over the entire manuscript, with the chapters they appear in.
Crutch words
Words used far more often than the length of the text justifies, ranked by count.
How it goes
- 1
Import your draft
One file, however many chapters it contains.
- 2
Look at the patterns
Per chapter for line-level echoes, whole book for the habits that repeat throughout.
- 3
Keep what is deliberate
Repetition is a technique as often as it is an accident. Nothing is changed for you.
Questions
Will it flag deliberate repetition?
It will show it to you, because it cannot read your intent. It will not change it. Anaphora, refrains, and repeated motifs appear in the list and you ignore them.
Does it count "said" as repetition?
No. Speech verbs and function words are excluded. "said" is supposed to be invisible, and a tool that flags it is a tool you stop trusting.
How is a pet phrase different from a repeated phrase?
A repeated phrase recurs inside one chapter. A pet phrase recurs across many chapters, often only once in each, which is why it survives every read-through and every per-document checker.
Does it handle different word forms?
Yes, with conservative stemming: walked, walking, and walks register as the same word, while genuinely different words are kept apart.