Word Checker

Get an accurate count of the words, characters, and sentences within a piece of text.
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Character Count
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Character Count
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What is a Word Counter?

Our word counter is a free online tool for effortlessly tallying the word count, character count, and sentence count of any piece of text. Whether you're writing an essay, drafting an email, or creating a social media post, our word checker can be helpful.

Using the word counter is easy. Begin by typing or pasting your text into the input field above on this page. Below the input field, you will find four statistics displaying the word count, sentence count, character count, and character count without spaces of your text.

How Does It Work?

To illustrate how our tool accurately calculates the word, sentence, and character count let's use the following example sentence:

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

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Words
Words are calculated by splitting the text on spaces and newlines to count each individual word. Our calculation ignores spelling mistakes, grammar, and double spaces.
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Sentence
A sentence is any string of text that is separated by either a full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark. We treat back-to-back punctuation as a single sentence (e.g., "?!" or "!." is only one sentence).
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Characters
Characters are counted by totalling the number of letters, punctuation marks, and spaces within the text.

Frequently Asked Questions

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