# Finding most often occurring word in an array

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**Created:** [April 2, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-most-often-occurring-word-in-an-array/307368 "2010-04-02T07:22:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-most-often-occurring-word-in-an-array/307368/1 "2010-04-02T07:22:58Z")

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Hi,  
I’m getting confused thinking this through. I have an array with single words (strings) as each value. I want to find out which word occurs the most often in the array. I’m using strcasecmp to do the comparison, but I’m getting confused visualizing the model for what I want to do. I know I have to compare each word to each other word in the array, but how do I keep a count of which words are the same and ultimately which one occurs the most often? I’m thinking I need to use a for or foreach loop but, as I say, I’m confusing myself thinking about it. Any help most appreciated!

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