Paste or type text to get an instant word and character count.
Word and character limits show up everywhere: essay assignments, tweet and social post limits, meta descriptions for SEO, resumes with strict length guidelines, and countless online forms with maximum character counts. Manually counting words or characters in a long piece of text is impractical, which is exactly the gap a word counter fills, giving you a live, accurate count as you write or paste text.
Beyond a simple word count, understanding sentence and paragraph counts can also help evaluate the structure and readability of a piece of writing, useful for students, content writers, and anyone editing text against a length requirement.
Paste or type your text into the box, and the tool instantly shows the word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, and paragraph count, updating live as you edit the text.
The tool shows both figures separately — character count including spaces, and character count excluding spaces — since different forms and platforms specify limits either way.
Sentences are typically counted based on standard sentence-ending punctuation like periods, question marks, and exclamation points, so unusual formatting or abbreviations with periods can occasionally affect the count slightly.
Different contexts use different limits — academic assignments and articles are usually measured in words, while social media posts and meta descriptions are typically measured in characters.
No, the count is calculated entirely in your browser as you type, and the text isn't transmitted or saved.
Yes, checking the character count of a meta description against typical search engine display limits is a common and practical use of this tool.