Word Sorter

Sorting words alphabetically turns an unreadable wall of tokens into something you can actually audit. Scanning an unsorted list for a specific term means reading every entry; in a sorted list you jump straight to the right letter. That difference stops mattering at ten words and matters enormously at a thousand, which is the size glossaries, tag inventories, and keyword exports usually reach.

Sorting also makes near-duplicates visible. Variants that differ by a suffix or a plural — "invoice" and "invoices", "colour" and "color" — land next to each other once ordered, and inconsistencies that were invisible scattered through a document become obvious in a column. This is the fastest way to catch the terminology drift that creeps into any glossary maintained by more than one person.

Whether to keep duplicates depends on the question you are asking. Keeping them preserves how often each term appeared, which matters if you are about to look at frequency. Removing them gives you a clean vocabulary inventory, which is what you want before building a taxonomy or a tag list. Note also that plain alphabetical order is not the same as locale-aware collation: accented characters and non-Latin scripts sort differently under different language rules, so verify the order against your target locale before shipping a multilingual list.