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Free Word & Character Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time online instantly.
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About this tool
If you've ever pasted an essay into Word just to check if it hits 500 words, you know how clunky that feels. This tool does the same job in about two seconds - paste your text, and you'll see the word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, and paragraph breakdown update live as you type.
It's built for a few different kinds of people. Students checking assignment limits. Writers trimming a blog post down to size. Social media folks making sure a caption doesn't get cut off. And if you're working on SEO content, there's a keyword density checker built right in, so you can see how often a term shows up without manually counting it line by line.
One thing worth mentioning: nothing you paste here gets saved or sent anywhere. The counting happens entirely in your browser. Close the tab, and it's gone - which is honestly how a tool like this should work.
We also added a rough reading-time estimate, because "how long will this take someone to read" is a question that comes up more than you'd expect, especially for blog posts and scripts.
How to use
Step 1: Type or paste your content into the main textarea.
Step 2: The tool will instantly count and display the number of words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in real-time.
Frequently Asked Questions
You'll see both numbers - character count with spaces and without. Pick whichever your guideline requires.
Yes. It counts words and characters the same way Microsoft Word does, so the numbers should match what your professor sees.
No hard limit. Very large documents (think tens of thousands of words) might take a moment longer to process, but it'll still work.
Most SEO writers aim for somewhere around 1-1.5% for the main keyword. Higher than that and it starts to look like stuffing, both to readers and to Google.