Free Online Word Counter
Paste your text and see the word and character count instantly. Sentences, paragraphs, reading time, most frequent words and meta tag character limits on a single screen. Your text never leaves your browser.
The text is processed in your browser and is never sent anywhere.
Character limits
Most frequent words
Very common words such as conjunctions and prepositions, and words shorter than three letters, are left out of the list.
How to use the word counter
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Paste your text
Drop the text you wrote or copied into the box. The counts update live as you type.
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Read the numbers
Alongside the word, character, sentence and paragraph counts you also get reading and speaking time.
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Check the limits
The colour bars tell you at a glance whether you are over the meta title, meta description, tweet or SMS limit.
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Spot the repetition
The most frequent words list shows which word your text leans on too heavily.
Why do word and character counts matter?
A character counter is the simplest way to tell whether a piece of text fits the space it is written for. The meta title and description shown in search results, social media posts, text messages and form fields all come with fixed limits; anything past the limit is cut off, usually in the middle of a sentence.
The word count matters more on the content side. It is what you check to hit the required length of an assignment, an article or a blog post, to price translation and transcription work, and to estimate how long a text takes to read.
This tool brings both sides together on one screen and runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server or stored; close the tab and nothing is left behind.
How the counts are calculated
| Measure | How it is calculated |
|---|---|
| Words | Runs of letters and digits count as words. Apostrophes and hyphens do not split a word, so "e-mail" counts as one. |
| Characters | Every character counts, including spaces and line breaks. The second counter leaves the spaces out. |
| Sentences | A full stop, exclamation mark, question mark or ellipsis is treated as the end of a sentence. |
| Paragraphs | Blocks of text separated by a blank line count as separate paragraphs. |
| Reading time | Based on an average silent reading speed of 200 words per minute. |
| Speaking time | Based on the 130 words per minute pace commonly used for presentations and voice-overs. |
Key features
Counts as you type
No button, no waiting. Every number updates the moment you type.
Your text stays with you
The counting happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored and no account is needed.
Built-in character limits
You no longer have to work out the meta title, meta description, tweet and SMS limits separately.
Keyword density
Seeing the most frequent words and their share helps you catch the places where the text repeats itself.
Reading and speaking time
You know in advance how long a piece will take to read, or how long it will run in a talk.
Mobile and desktop
It works the same way on a phone and on a computer, with nothing to install.
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