What is a word counter?
A word counter is an online tool that counts how many words are in a block of text. It can also count characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and estimated reading time. This is useful for essays, articles, website copy, social media posts, meta descriptions, emails, and any text with a word limit or character limit.
How to count words online
- Paste your text into the input box above.
- Click Count Words.
- Review the word count, character count, sentence count, paragraph count, and line count.
- Copy or download the results if needed.
Example word count result
Example text:
This is a simple example sentence.
Result:
Words: 6
Characters: 34
Sentences: 1
When should you use a word counter?
- Checking essay or assignment length
- Counting words in blog posts and articles
- Checking character limits for social media posts
- Measuring meta descriptions and SEO copy
- Estimating reading time for online content
Word count vs character count
Word count measures the number of words in your text. Character count measures every letter, number, punctuation mark, symbol, and space.
Frequently asked questions
Does this tool count characters?
Yes. It counts characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and lines.
Related text tools
Use these related text tools to further clean and format your content:
- Remove line breaks from text
- Remove extra spaces from text
- Remove empty lines from text
- Remove duplicate lines from text
- Convert text case
Popular use cases
- Count words in essays
- Check article length
- Count characters for social posts
- Measure website copy
- Estimate reading time
- Check text before publishing