Best free word cloud generators for language learning in 2022

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 disadvantages — there is no possibility to lemmatize words to the initial form, not all fonts work for foreign languages. The abundance of fonts and colors allows you to make the cloud very attractive, but difficult to read.

WordArt

Most frequent English words by WordArt

WordArt (ex Tagul) is a good choice when the visual picture of the word cloud is in the first place. Here you can choose anything at all: the font and size of each word, shapes and colors. But be prepared for a long and painstaking work in a not very friendly interface. Main advantages: an abundance of customization options, stemming is offered for the English language (i.e., counting together some grammatical forms, but not the form of a verb).