# Word cloud

Builds a word cloud from the text of the page it is placed on, sizing each word by how often it appears.

A quick visual summary of what a page is actually about - useful at the top of a long retrospective, a survey write-up or a set of meeting notes. It reads the page's own text (the live draft while you are editing, the published version otherwise), strips common English stopwords, counts what remains case-insensitively and lays the words out at sizes proportional to their frequency. There is nothing to type: the only settings are how often a word must appear to earn a place and the smallest and largest sizes to draw at.

![](https://help.gocapable.com/images/9562d717-ed23-4e0b-b49e-8f83bdecc188.webp)

The macro is reached from the editor slash menu, which also offers the separate word count macro.

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## See it

Every example below is a real macro on this page, not a screenshot, and each one is a configuration taken from a page somebody actually built. Open this page in the editor to see how any of them is set up.

### Words

Word clouds are not available on published sites. The cloud is laid out in the browser by a renderer that published sites do not ship.

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## Settings

| **Setting**        | **Values**             | **What it changes**                                                                                                                                         |
| ------------------ | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Display            | words (the only value) | Nothing - see caveats.                                                                                                                                      |
| Minimum Occurences | A number               | A word must appear at least this many times in the page to be included. Raising it thins the cloud to the dominant themes; at 1 every non-stopword appears. |
| Minimum Font Size  | A number of pixels     | Size drawn for the least frequent included word.                                                                                                            |
| Maximum Font Size  | A number of pixels     | Size drawn for the most frequent word; everything else is scaled between the two.                                                                           |

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## Related

[CodeA read-only code block with syntax highlighting, optional line numbers, a copy button and a cho](https://help.gocapable.com/macros/code.html)

[LaTeX mathRenders a block mathematical equation written in LaTeX, centred on its own line in the page.](https://help.gocapable.com/macros/latex-math.html)

[Technical and dataThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/macros/technical-and-data.html)

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_The largest family, and the most precise._