What is the Word Counter?
The Word Counter gives you an instant overview of your writing. It counts words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, and paragraphs in one clean view.
Use it to check essay limits, prepare social posts, review article length, or understand the structure of any piece of writing.
How to use this tool
- 1Type or paste text into the editor.
- 2Review the live totals shown above the editor.
- 3Edit your text and watch every count update instantly.
- 4Copy the text or download it as a TXT file.
Live statistics
See words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs update while you type.
Long-text support
Analyze essays, articles, notes, captions, and other text up to 100,000 characters.
Private by design
All counting happens locally in your browser, so your writing stays on your device.
Frequently asked questions
How does the Word Counter work?+
The counter analyzes the text in your browser and updates the totals instantly as you type or paste content.
Does it count spaces as characters?+
The Characters total includes spaces. A separate No spaces total shows the character count after whitespace is removed.
How are words counted?+
Groups of text separated by spaces or line breaks are counted as individual words.
Is my writing uploaded?+
No. Your text is counted locally on your device and is not uploaded to our server.