Repeated Words

Obsidian plugin that highlights words repeated too close together while you write, in English and Spanish.

Hover a highlighted word to see how far apart the repeats are.

Settings

• Languages: English and/or Spanish common words (the, with, para, como…) are never flagged.
• Scope: within N words, same sentence, or same paragraph.
• Distance: max words between repeats (word distance scope only).
• Minimum word length: shorter words are ignored.
• Match singular and plural: casa/casas, flor/flores, house/houses.
• Ignore accents: esta/está, como/cómo count as the same word.
• Ignored words: your own list, such as character names.
• Style / Color: background highlight or wavy underline.

Command: Toggle repeated word highlighting (assign a hotkey in Settings → Hotkeys).

Skips frontmatter, code blocks, inline code, math, links, URLs, tags and %%comments%%. Works in Live Preview and Source mode (not Reading view).

Develop

npm install
npm run dev     # watch build
npm run build   # production build
npm test        # detection unit tests
npm run lint    # Obsidian's official lint rules (same as the plugin review)
npm run screenshots  # regenerate docs/images (macOS, needs Obsidian and Chrome)

Install manually

Copy main.js, manifest.json and styles.css to <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/repeated-words/, then enable Repeated Words in Settings → Community plugins.

Support

If this plugin helps you write, you can buy me a coffee:

License

MIT © Elisa De Gregorio