Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimate reading time. All processing happens locally.
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This word counter analyzes your text in real-time, providing comprehensive statistics including word count, character count, sentence count, paragraphs, and more. It also calculates reading time estimates and Flesch-Kincaid readability scores. All processing happens entirely in your browser - your text is never sent to any server.
Word Counter is a free, browser-based tool that instantly tallies the words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in any text you type or paste. It's built for writers staying under a word limit, developers checking UI string lengths, and content creators trimming copy to fit a meta description, tweet, or abstract. Because it runs entirely in your browser, your text never leaves your device, so there's nothing to upload and no waiting.
It splits your text on whitespace (spaces, tabs, and line breaks) and counts the resulting chunks. So 'hello world' counts as two words, while a hyphenated term like 'state-of-the-art' usually counts as one.
Characters count every individual symbol, including letters, numbers, and punctuation, while words count groups of characters separated by whitespace. Character counts matter for limits like tweets or meta descriptions; word counts matter for essays and articles.
Yes. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so your text is never uploaded, sent to a server, stored, or tracked. You can safely use it for confidential drafts because nothing leaves your device.
Yes, it's completely free with no sign-up, no usage limits, and no paywall or watermark.
Sentences are detected by terminal punctuation such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points, while paragraphs are counted by blank lines or line breaks separating blocks of text. Counts are estimates that follow common writing conventions.
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