Word counter and character count
Paste your text and you'll instantly see words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, your most frequent words and close repeats, plus whether it fits an SMS, a post on X or a Google description. The counting happens in your browser; your text goes nowhere.
Most frequent words
- They'll appear when you paste text.
Repeats close together
Words of 4+ letters that come back within 30 words. Click to highlight them in the text.
- No repeats.
Limits
How it counts
A word is a run of letters or digits. Hyphenated words like “e-mail” and contractions like “don't” count as one word, and so do numbers such as “2.5”. A lone dash or an emoji is not a word. Characters with spaces ignore line breaks, the way Word does; characters without spaces skip every kind of whitespace. A sentence ends with a period, exclamation mark, question mark or ellipsis, but not after common abbreviations such as “Mr.”, “Dr.” or “e.g.”, and not when the next word starts with a lowercase letter. A line without a period, such as a heading, counts as one sentence. Every non-empty line is a paragraph. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute, reading aloud 130.
Top words and repeats
The frequent-words list skips articles, prepositions and pronouns by default, otherwise “the” wins every time. The repeats panel shows words of four or more letters that come back within 30 words, the kind an editor circles in the margin. Click a word to highlight its next occurrence in your text.
Privacy
Nothing is sent while you type: the F12 Network tab stays quiet. The last text is kept only in this browser's local storage so a refresh doesn't wipe it, and the Clear button deletes it.
Limitations
The counter doesn't understand grammar, so “model” and “models” are two different words. Google truncates titles and descriptions by pixel width, not by characters, so those two bars are a guide. On X a link always counts as 23 characters and an emoji as two.
Frequently asked questions
How does the counter define a word?
Any run of letters or digits. Hyphenated words, contractions and numbers like 2.5 count as one word; punctuation and emoji don't count.
Why does my SMS suddenly allow only 70 characters?
A standard SMS uses the GSM alphabet. One character outside it, such as a curly apostrophe, an emoji or a letter like ç, switches the whole message to Unicode, where the limit drops from 160 to 70 characters, and to 67 per part in longer messages.
Is my text saved anywhere?
Not on a server. The last text stays only in this browser so it survives a page refresh. The Clear button removes it.
Does it count words in other languages?
Yes, for any language that separates words with spaces. For Chinese or Japanese, which don't, rely on the character counts instead.