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Best free word cloud generators for language learning in 2022

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As a language teacher I often use word clouds (or tag clouds). In this review, I offer my personal top free word cloud generator for visualizing the most frequent English words. Wordcloud.online Top-100 English words by Wordcloud.online The minimalistic service and the only one I’ve analyzed that lemmatizes words to the initial grammatical form, so instead of  go, goes, gone, going  you get GO.  Simple interface, good ready-made styles. I also like that the algorithm places the most frequent words closer to the center of the cloud, that is, the visual focus is on the frequent vocabulary. The only minus is not a large choice of cloud shapes (only square for now). Wordclouds.com Top-100 English words by Wordclouds.com It is a multilingual free service, providing many cloud forms and options for customizing fonts and colors. There are attractive palettes and styles, font previews make it easy to choose. As input, you can load both text and a list of words, which can be very useful. Among