[c#] A method to count occurrences in a list

Is there a simple way to count the number of occurrences of all elements of a list into that same list in C#?

Something like this:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

string Occur;
List<string> Words = new List<string>();
List<string> Occurrences = new List<string>();

// ~170 elements added. . . 

for (int i = 0;i<Words.Count;i++){
    Words = Words.Distinct().ToList();
    for (int ii = 0;ii<Words.Count;ii++){Occur = new Regex(Words[ii]).Matches(Words[]).Count;}
         Occurrences.Add (Occur);
         Console.Write("{0} ({1}), ", Words[i], Occurrences[i]);
    }
}

Your outer loop is looping over all the words in the list. It's unnecessary and will cause you problems. Remove it and it should work properly.

var wordCount =
    from word in words
    group word by word into g
    select new { g.Key, Count = g.Count() };    

This is taken from one of the examples in the linqpad

You can do something like this to count from a list of things.

IList<String> names = new List<string>() { "ToString", "Format" };
IEnumerable<String> methodNames = typeof(String).GetMethods().Select(x => x.Name);

int count = methodNames.Where(x => names.Contains(x)).Count();

To count a single element

string occur = "Test1";
IList<String> words = new List<string>() {"Test1","Test2","Test3","Test1"};

int count = words.Where(x => x.Equals(occur)).Count();

public void printsOccurences(List<String> words)
{
    var selectQuery =
        from word in words
        group word by word into g
        select new {Word = g.Key, Count = g.Count()};
    foreach(var word in selectQuery)
        Console.WriteLine($"{word.Word}: {word.Count}");*emphasized text*
}