Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your text. Perfect for essays, assignments, and meeting word count requirements.
About This Tool
Our Word Counter tool provides instant, accurate text analysis for students, writers, and professionals. Whether you're working on an essay with strict word limits, preparing content for social media, or analyzing the structure of your writing, this tool gives you all the metrics you need. Simply paste or type your text, and get real-time counts for words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and lines. It's especially helpful for meeting academic requirements, optimizing content length for SEO, or tracking your writing progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Words are counted by splitting the text on whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines). Each sequence of non-whitespace characters is counted as one word. Hyphenated words like 'well-known' count as one word.
Characters include every single character in your text including spaces, punctuation, and line breaks. Characters without spaces excludes all space characters, giving you a count of just letters, numbers, and punctuation.
There's no strict limit, but very long texts (over 100,000 words) may experience slight delays in counting. The tool processes text in real-time as you type.
Yes! This tool is perfect for checking if your essay, research paper, or assignment meets word count requirements. The counts are accurate and can help you track your progress as you write.