Remove Consecutive Duplicate Words
Remove Consecutive Duplicate Words collapses immediately repeated words while keeping the first copy.
Example: remove consecutive duplicate words
the the answer
the answer
How to use this tool
- Paste the sentence or paragraph.
- Run the duplicate-word cleanup.
- Read the result to ensure intentional repetition was not removed.
How the result is made
The pattern looks for a word followed by the same word again across whitespace, ignoring case. “the the answer” becomes “the answer”. It also handles a run longer than two words, but only when identical words are adjacent. Repeated words elsewhere in the paragraph remain untouched.
When to use it
Use it to clean a common drafting typo such as “and and” without changing intentional repetition in other parts of the text. Remove Duplicate Lines compares entire lines, while Word Frequency Counter reports repeats without editing the passage.
Details to check
The regular expression recognizes letter-or-number word runs and whitespace. Punctuation between repeated words prevents a match, and case variations are compared without regard to case. Review stylistic repetition in dialogue or poetry before removing it automatically.
Questions people ask
Will it remove all repeated words?
No. Only adjacent identical words are collapsed.
Does case matter?
Matching ignores case, but the first spelling is kept.
Will a comma between words be ignored?
No. Punctuation breaks the repeated-word pattern.