Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and analyze your text instantly.
Live Text Statistics
Based on ~200 words per minute. Actual reading speed varies by person and content.
Based on ~130 words per minute. This is an estimate only.
Writing Goal
Quick Actions
Top Words
| Word | Count | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Start typing to see your most frequent words. | ||
Keyword Density
Keyword density is only one text measurement and does not guarantee search rankings.
Find & Replace
Text Cleanup
Save Draft Locally
Your draft is stored locally in this browser using localStorage. It is never uploaded anywhere and can be cleared at any time.
What Is a Word Counter?
A word counter is a writing tool that measures the size and structure of a piece of text. Instead of manually counting words, characters, or sentences, you paste or type your content and immediately see accurate statistics that update as you write.
How Does This Word Counter Work?
This tool analyzes your text entirely inside your own browser using JavaScript. There is no server processing involved and no text is transmitted anywhere while you type, paste, or edit.
What Can This Tool Count?
You can instantly see your word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, and line count, along with estimated reading time and speaking time.
Why Word Count Matters
Word and character limits show up everywhere: academic assignments with strict word requirements, blog posts aiming for a target length, social media posts with hard character caps, copywriting briefs, and professional documents that need to stay concise. Knowing your exact counts helps you meet those requirements without guesswork.
How to Count Characters and Words
A word is generally a sequence of characters separated by whitespace, while a character count includes every letter, number, punctuation mark, and space in your text. This tool also shows a character count with spaces excluded, which is useful for platforms that count characters differently.
Estimated Reading Time
Reading time is calculated using an average reading speed and is meant as a helpful estimate rather than an exact measurement. Actual reading speed depends on the reader, the subject matter, and text complexity.
Word Frequency and Keyword Analysis
The Top Words and Keyword Density sections show how often specific words or phrases appear in your text. This can help you spot repetition or check how prominently a target phrase appears, but it is only one measurement among many and is not a guarantee of search engine rankings.
Is My Text Private?
Yes. All core text analysis happens locally in your browser. If you choose to save a draft, it is stored only in your browser using localStorage, never uploaded to a server, and can be deleted at any time.
Can I Analyze Long Articles?
Yes. This tool is built to comfortably handle long-form content, including articles of 50,000 words or more, without imposing an artificial character limit. Statistics update smoothly even for very long pasted text.
Can I Download My Text as an Image?
Yes. Besides downloading a plain .txt file, you can export your current text as a PNG or JPEG image directly from your browser, with no server upload involved.
Frequently Asked Questions
A word counter is a tool that analyzes text and reports statistics such as word count, character count, sentence count, and more.
Words are detected using a Unicode-friendly approach that splits on whitespace and punctuation boundaries, so multiple spaces, tabs, and line breaks are handled correctly.
Yes. It shows a total character count as well as a character count with spaces excluded.
The main character count includes spaces. A separate statistic shows the character count with spaces removed.
Yes. Sentences are detected using common sentence-ending punctuation such as periods, exclamation points, and question marks. This is an approximation rather than perfect linguistic sentence detection.
Yes. Paragraphs are detected by blocks of text separated by line breaks.
Reading time uses a default estimate of 200 words per minute. It is an estimate, since actual reading speed varies.
Speaking time uses a default estimate of 130 words per minute, which is also only an estimate.
Yes. The Top Words section shows your most frequently used words, with an option to ignore common stop words.
Keyword density is the percentage of times a target word or phrase appears relative to your total word count. It is only one text measurement and does not guarantee search rankings.
Yes. The Find & Replace tool lets you replace the first match or all matches, with an optional case-sensitive toggle and an undo option.
Yes. You can download your current text as a plain .txt file directly from your browser, with no upload involved.
Yes. You can manually save a draft to your browser using localStorage, then load or delete it later. It is not saved automatically.
No. All counting and analysis happens locally in your browser using JavaScript.
Yes, this tool is free to use and does not require any signup or account.
Yes. The tool is fully responsive and works on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop screens.
No artificial limit is imposed. The tool is built to handle long articles of 50,000 words or more.
Yes. In addition to a plain .txt download, you can export your text as a PNG or JPEG image directly from your browser.