Paste or type your text in the text area above
Click the Count button to see statistics
Use the Sample button to load example text
Review detailed breakdown of paragraphs, sentences, and reading time
Paste or type your text in the text area above
Click the Count button to see statistics
Use the Sample button to load example text
Review detailed breakdown of paragraphs, sentences, and reading time
Word Counter is a free online word count tool that instantly calculates words, characters, and paragraphs in your text. Whether you're a writer working on articles, a student writing essays, a blogger crafting posts, or a social media manager creating content, this accurate word counter helps you track text length and meet specific requirements for assignments, SEO content, character limits, and publishing guidelines.
Our word counting tool provides comprehensive text statistics including total word count, character count without spaces, character count with spaces, and paragraph count. The intelligent algorithm accurately identifies words by recognizing alphanumeric patterns while filtering punctuation marks and extra whitespace, ensuring precise counts for professional writing, academic papers, blog posts, social media captions, and any text-based content.
Perfect for writers who need to meet minimum or maximum word limits, content creators optimizing articles for search engines with target word counts, students ensuring essays meet length requirements, copywriters crafting messages within character restrictions, and anyone analyzing text structure. The real-time counter updates instantly as you type or paste, displaying statistics in easy-to-read color-coded cards that show words, characters (excluding spaces), characters (including spaces), and paragraph counts at a glance.
This online character and word counter works completely in your browser with no registration required and no data sent to servers, ensuring your content privacy and security. Use it for free unlimited times to count words in essays, articles, blog posts, social media updates, manuscripts, research papers, product descriptions, email campaigns, and any text document. Fast, accurate, and reliable word counting for all your writing needs.
Counts words intelligently by recognizing text containing letters and numbers while filtering special characters. Splits by whitespace for accurate results.
Displays comprehensive metrics in color-coded cards: words (orange), characters (green), characters with spaces (blue), and paragraphs (red). See all your text statistics at a glance.
Automatically counts paragraphs by detecting line breaks and empty lines, helping you understand document structure and organization.
One-click copy to clipboard and sample text loading for quick testing. Perfect for workflows where you need to analyze and then use the text elsewhere.
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