Word Rain

This page will take one or more text files and generate a Word Rain visualization.

Start by choosing the language of the text:

Then choose number of words to plot:

Advanced settings

Use inverse document frequency

Treat frequent two-word combinations as their own words

Specify a background corpus:

Upload either:

text files (plain text, UTF-8)
Word .docx files

Upload files

Now choose how you want the word rain to look by configuring how quickly you want less common words to become smaller (word size fall-off) and how tall the vertical bars should be (bar height). Then click the "Draw word rain" button to see the result. Change the settings and redraw the word rain until you are satisfied.

Word size fall-off:

gradual

steep

Bar height:

short

long