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Repetition Insight

Last updated May 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Inside one passage you can't tell — but across the chapter, "as if" was used 47 times.

Slima Writing Studio editor as a visual reference: left file tree / centre editor with format toolbar / right Notes panel

What it detects

  • Repeated words / phrases: excluding stopwords (the, a, an)
  • Repeated sentence patterns: "he X-ed, she X-ed", "A is B" runs
  • Rhetorical repeats: "as if / like" connectors used too often
  • Paragraph openings: every paragraph starts with "He walked into the room"

Result

"Top 10 repeated words / patterns in this chapter" + locations + suggested swaps.

E.g.:

"as if" × 47:
- P3: "as if time stood still"
- P7: "as if it never happened"
- …
Suggest: swap some for "like" / "almost" or rewrite without simile

Spotting your idiolect

Repetition analysis runs on the chapter you currently have open. Run it across several chapters and your author idiolect starts to surface — light use is style, heavy use is noise.

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