MySQL count occurrences greater than 2
SELECT count(word) as count
FROM words
GROUP BY word
HAVING count >= 2;
To get a list of the words that appear more than once together with how often they occur, use a combination of GROUP BY and HAVING:
SELECT word, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM words
GROUP BY word
HAVING cnt > 1
To find the number of words in the above result set, use that as a subquery and count the rows in an outer query:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM
(
SELECT NULL
FROM words
GROUP BY word
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
) T1
SELECT word, COUNT(*) FROM words GROUP by word HAVING COUNT(*) > 1