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Word & Character Counter

Paste or type your text to count words, characters, sentences and paragraphs instantly β€” plus reading time, top keywords and SEO length limits.

When should you use the Word Counter?

  • Hitting a word limit for an essay, article or application
  • Keeping SEO titles and meta descriptions within Google's display length
  • Checking a social post fits the character limit before publishing

How to use the Word Counter

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    Type or paste into the box. Every count updates as you type.

  2. 2

    Read the counts

    See words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and lines.

  3. 3

    Check the limits

    The bars show how your text compares to SEO title, meta description and X post limits.

  4. 4

    Review keywords

    The top keywords list shows the words you repeat most, ignoring common words like 'the' and 'and'.

Examples

Counting a short paragraph

Text

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Counts

Words:       10
Characters:  66
No spaces:   57
Sentences:   2

Common errors and how to fix them

My word count differs from Word or Google Docs
Tools treat hyphens, numbers, URLs and symbols slightly differently. Differences of a word or two on long texts are normal.
Character count looks too high
Spaces and line breaks count as characters. Use the 'Characters (no spaces)' figure if your limit excludes them.
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Word Counter FAQ

It uses your browser's built-in text segmentation, which splits text into words the way a language-aware dictionary would. Hyphenated words and contractions such as don't count as one word, and punctuation is ignored.

Yes. Characters are counted as user-perceived characters, so an emoji or an accented letter counts as one. Words in most languages are detected, though languages without spaces between words (such as Chinese or Japanese) are segmented by the browser and may differ slightly from other tools.

Reading time assumes an average silent reading speed of about 238 words per minute, and speaking time about 150 words per minute. Real speeds vary with the reader and the difficulty of the text.

Google usually shows about 50–60 characters of a page title and around 150–160 characters of a meta description before truncating. The limit bars help you stay inside those ranges.

Standard X posts are limited to 280 characters. Some subscriptions allow longer posts, but 280 is still what most readers see before the post is cut off.

A sentence ends with ., ! or ?, as detected by the browser's sentence segmenter. A paragraph is a block of text separated from the next by an empty line.