Word Counter
Paste text to get word count and character count.
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Why Use a Word Counter?
A word counter is an essential tool for writers, students, social media managers, and anyone working with text. It helps you meet specific length requirements for essays, articles, reports, tweets, or Instagram captions. Staying within a word or character limit is crucial in many contexts, and our tool makes it easy.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does it work?
Simply paste your text into the text box. The tool will automatically and instantly calculate the number of words and characters as you type or paste. The counts are updated in real-time.
What is counted as a "word"?
Our tool defines a word as any sequence of characters separated by a space. This is the standard method used by most word processing software. Hyphenated words are typically counted as one word.
Is my text saved?
No, your privacy is paramount. All processing happens directly in your browser. Your text is never sent to our servers, so it remains completely private.