Word & Character Counter

This tool provides real-time statistics for any piece of text. As you type or paste text into the editor, the counts for words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs are instantly updated. It is an invaluable utility for writers, students, social media managers, SEO specialists, and anyone who works with text and needs to adhere to specific length requirements or wants to analyze their writing.

Whether you're drafting an essay that needs to meet a certain word count, composing a tweet that fits within a character limit, or preparing a meta description for a webpage, this tool gives you immediate feedback. The live-updating nature of the counter means you don't have to stop your workflow to check your progress. Like all our tools, this runs entirely in your browser, ensuring your content remains completely private and secure.

How It Calculates:

• Words: Counted based on spaces and other whitespace characters. A sequence of characters separated by a space is considered a single word.
• Characters: A raw count of every character you type, including spaces, punctuation, and symbols. This is useful for platforms with strict character limits, like Twitter.
• Sentences: Counted based on the presence of terminal punctuation marks such as periods (.), question marks (?), and exclamation points (!). The tool is designed to handle multiple sentences in a block of text.
• Paragraphs: Counted based on line breaks. Any block of text separated by one or more empty lines is considered a new paragraph.