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Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your text

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What is Word Counter?

Free online word counter to count words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, and paragraphs in any text instantly.

It also estimates reading time and speaking time and shows a readability score, so you can check an essay against a word count, keep a tweet under the character limit, or size up a blog post at a glance. This free word counter tool is useful for writers, students, bloggers, and anyone who needs to track text length for essays, social media posts, SEO content, or character-limited fields. Paste your text and get a complete breakdown of all statistics in real time as you type. No signup required.

How to Use Word Counter

1Type or paste your text into the input area
2View the real-time statistics panel showing words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs
3Use the character count to check against platform limits
4Clear the text and start over at any time

Frequently Asked Questions

The word counter analyzes your text in real time as you type or paste it. It splits the text by whitespace to count words, counts each character individually (with and without spaces), identifies sentences by punctuation marks, and detects paragraphs by line breaks.

Yes. The tool shows both the total character count (including spaces) and the character count without spaces. This is useful for platforms that count characters differently, like Twitter (includes spaces) vs some SMS services (excludes spaces).

Yes. The character count shown is perfect for checking against social media limits: Twitter/X allows 280 characters, Instagram captions allow 2,200 characters, and LinkedIn posts allow 3,000 characters.

Yes. The tool divides your word count by an adjustable words-per-minute speed (238 by default) to estimate reading time, plus a separate speaking time figure. Useful for sizing a blog post, a presentation script, or a speech.

Paste your draft and watch the word count update live as you edit. Trim or expand until you land inside the assignment's minimum and maximum. The character counts help with stricter limits like abstracts capped at 150 to 250 words.

No. Counting happens entirely in your browser as you type. Nothing is sent to a server, so drafts of essays, client work, and unpublished posts stay private on your device.

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What is Word Counter?

Free online word counter to count words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, and paragraphs in any text instantly.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Counting happens entirely in your browser as you type. Nothing is sent to a server, so drafts of essays, client work, and unpublished posts stay private on your device.