Count words and characters online instantly with an accurate word counter for essays articles assignments blog posts social media and everyday writing.
Word Counter gives you an instant count of words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in any piece of text — useful for meeting an essay's word limit, checking a social media post's character count, or verifying a document meets a submission requirement. Paste or type your text and watch the counts update in real time as you edit. It's a simple, reliable tool for writers, students, and anyone working against a strict length requirement for an assignment, application, or post.
Paste your text into the box, or just start typing. Counting happens live as you go.
Watch the counters update in real time: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, and paragraphs.
Check against your limit — essays, meta descriptions, and tweets all have different ceilings.
Trim or expand with the numbers in front of you instead of guessing.
Live word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts — instant, accurate, and entirely private.
Counts update instantly as you type or paste.
See word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts together.
Check your text against essay or post length requirements.
Counting happens in your browser — your text is never uploaded.
Count unlimited text at no cost.
The tool shows both character counts with and without spaces included.
Yes, this tool is completely free with no limit on how much text you check.
Yes, the tool handles text of any length, updating counts as you paste or type.
Yes, alongside words and characters, sentence and paragraph counts are also shown.
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser, so your text stays private.
Word Counter Online