Word Counter

A word counter tallies the words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your text as you type or paste it. It is the quick, reliable way to hit a length target — whether you are writing an essay with a minimum word count, a meta description with a character limit, or a social post that has to fit a cap.

Counts update live, so you always know where you stand without leaving your draft or pasting into a heavier app. Because it shows characters and sentences alongside words, it is just as useful for tightening prose as it is for meeting a floor: you can watch a paragraph shrink as you cut filler.

Your text is processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored — paste a confidential draft and close the tab with nothing left behind.

Words are counted by splitting your text on whitespace, so runs of spaces, tabs, and line breaks do not inflate the total. Characters are counted as every keystroke including spaces, which is the figure most platforms use for their limits — for example, the 280-character cap on a post or the roughly 155–160 characters a search engine shows for a meta description.

Sentences are estimated by counting terminal punctuation (periods, question marks, and exclamation points), and paragraphs by counting blocks separated by blank lines. These are practical approximations rather than grammatical parsing, which means abbreviations or unusual punctuation can nudge the sentence count slightly — but for everyday writing the figures track what you would count by hand.

If you only care about characters — say, for a username, a tweet, or an SMS — the dedicated character counter gives a focused view including a with-and-without-spaces breakdown. For reading-time estimates based on words per minute, the reading time calculator builds on the same word count.