Word Counter
Counting the number of words or characters in a piece of text is useful in many situations, such as when writing an article, posting on social networks, being paid by the word, sending an SMS etc. Instantly count words and characters with the simple web tool below:
Your text stays private: it is processed locally in your browser and never sent to a server. Tips and Tricks
- Use the pull-down menu above the text area to switch between word count and character count.
- On some browsers, the height of the text area can be adjusted by dragging its bottom right corner up or down.
- Counts are updated as you type, delete, cut, or paste text.
- A word is defined as a sequence of characters between whitespaces. For example,
it’s
, check-in
, $1,947.45
, and john@domain.com
are all counted as one word. - You can generate a link to this page with the current text pre-loaded.
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