How to use Word counter
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Add your text
Type in the box or paste from Word, Google Docs, an e-mail or a web page — formatting is ignored.
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Read the totals
Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences and paragraphs update instantly in the panel beside the text.
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Check pace and repetition
Use the reading and speaking times for scripts, and the keyword list to find words you overuse.
Limits and Pro
Free with no sign-up and no word cap — a 100,000-word manuscript is counted in about half a second, and the draft is saved automatically.
Pro removes the ads; the counter itself has no limits to lift. See Pro
About Word counter
Students checking an essay against a 1,500-word limit, bloggers aiming for a target length and translators quoting by word count all need the same thing: a number they can trust, updated the moment the text changes. Paste or type and the counter shows words, characters with and without spaces, sentences and paragraphs side by side.
A word is any run of letters or digits, so “don't”, “e-mail” and “COVID-19” each count once and punctuation never inflates the total. Characters are counted as you see them, which keeps accented letters, emoji and non-Latin scripts at one each instead of two or three. Sentences end at a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark (including the Chinese and Japanese forms), and paragraphs are blocks separated by an empty line.
Below the totals you get reading time at 238 words per minute and speaking time at 150, plus the average word and sentence length — handy for spotting run-on sentences in a speech or presentation script. The keyword density list ranks your ten most frequent words with their share of the text; switch off “Ignore common words” to include words like “the” and “and”.
The counter does not check grammar or spelling, and it treats abbreviations such as “e.g.” as sentence breaks, so the sentence count on heavily abbreviated text can run slightly high.
Privacy
Counting is done by the page itself while you type; the text is never sent to a server or to any third party. The draft is kept in this browser's local storage so it is still there after a refresh, and the Clear button deletes it.
Features
Live, Unicode-aware counts
Emoji, accents and non-Latin scripts count as one character each, the way you see them.
Reading and speaking time
Estimates at 238 and 150 words per minute for articles, talks and video scripts.
Keyword density
Your ten most frequent words with percentages, with or without common filler words.