Find the words you lean on
What is a crutch word?
Crutch words are filler that sneaks into a first draft: intensifiers like very and really, vagueness like somehow and kind of, and time-savers like just and suddenly. Used sparingly they are harmless. Used every paragraph, they flatten the prose and tell the reader how to feel instead of showing it.
Read the highlighted preview
The preview shows every match highlighted in place, so you can judge each one in context. A word that appears thirty times might be fine if twenty of them pull real weight. The count alone never decides; the context does.
Fix the habit, not just the draft
Delete the ones that add nothing, replace the ones that are doing a job, and keep the few that earn their place. Run the same chapter through again after editing to watch the count drop.
Where this fits in your writing workflow
Editing out crutch words is a revision pass, not a style rule. The highlighted preview shows each match in context so you can cut the weak ones and keep the ones doing real work.
Revision passes fit naturally into Webnovels AI, where you review Bao’s suggestions in approval mode before they touch your draft.