Word Counter

A word counter splits text into words and counts them. Doing that well is harder than splitting on spaces. This tool uses the same word-boundary rules as your browser's text engine, so a contraction like don't is one word, a number counts as a word, punctuation and dashes never do, and languages without spaces between words, such as Chinese and Japanese, are segmented properly instead of being counted as one giant word.

Alongside the word count you get characters (with a separate character counter page if you need the version without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, unique words and the average word length. Sentences are detected from terminal punctuation, and paragraphs are blocks of text separated by a blank line. Reading time uses an average adult silent reading speed of about 238 words per minute, and speaking time assumes roughly 150 words per minute, so it works as a quick reading time calculator for blog posts, speeches and video scripts.

The keyword density table lists your most-repeated words with their counts and share of the total. It ignores very common words like the and of so the list shows topic words. Use it as a word checker for repetition, for example to spot an overused word in an essay, or to see whether the focus keyword of an article appears often enough without being stuffed. Density is a rough guide, not a ranking rule.

Everything is calculated in your browser while you type. Drafts, essays and confidential documents are never uploaded or stored.