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Word & Character Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in any text.
Privacy: All processing runs in your browser. No input is sent to any server.
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Word & Character Counter
Paste or type any text to get an instant count of words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time. Useful for checking blog post length, meta description limits, and academic word counts. All counting is performed in your browser.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is my text sent to a server?
- No. All counting is performed in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never transmitted anywhere.
- How are words counted?
- Words are defined as sequences of non-whitespace characters separated by one or more whitespace characters. This matches the most common word-counting convention.
- How are sentences counted?
- Sentences are counted by the number of terminal punctuation marks (full stops, exclamation marks, question marks) followed by a space or end of text.
- Does it count HTML or Markdown as text?
- Yes — paste raw text without markup for the most accurate word count. HTML tags and Markdown syntax are counted as characters and may affect the word count.