Word Counter for Essays, Articles and Posts

It reads your text and splits it into words using your browser language rules, then counts the result. Characters, sentences, paragraphs and lines are counted at the same time, and every number updates live as you type or paste.

Paste your text into the box or start typing. The word count appears at the top of the results straight away. Use the Paste button to insert from your clipboard and Clear to start over.

A single-spaced page usually holds about 500 words and a double-spaced page about 250, depending on font and margins. Use the word count to plan essays, reports and articles against a target length.

Reading time assumes about 200 words per minute, which is a common average for silent reading. Speaking time assumes about 130 words per minute, a comfortable pace for a speech or video script.

A word count tells you how many words you wrote, while a character count tells you how many letters, numbers, spaces and symbols. Use the character counter when a platform sets a letter limit instead of a word limit.

Yes. Where your browser supports it, the counter uses language-aware word segmentation, so it can count words in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Arabic that do not always put spaces between words.

Counting follows standard word segmentation, so a hyphenated word and a number each usually count as one word. Results can differ by a word or two from other programs such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

It lists the most frequent words in your text with the number of times each appears and its share of the total. Very short words, numbers and common filler words such as the, and and of are skipped so real topic words stand out.

It is a quick way to spot overused or missing words in a draft. Aim to use your main topic naturally rather than repeating it, and use the list to check that your focus words actually appear.

Sentences end at a full stop, exclamation mark, question mark or the equivalent in other scripts. Paragraphs are blocks of text separated by blank lines, and lines are counted by line breaks.

No. All counting happens in your browser, so essays, drafts and private notes are never sent to a server or stored.

Yes. It is free with no sign-up and no limits, and it works on phones, tablets and desktop computers.