Word Counter
Word Count
Sentences Count
Characters Count
Characters Count
What is 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 crafting an essay, drafting an email, or composing a social media post. Paste or type your text into the provided field, and our word counter will instantly generate detailed statistics.
How do I use the word counter?
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 three statistics displaying the word count, character count, and sentence count of your text.
How are words counted?
To calculate the number of words within a piece of text, we split the text by spaces and newlines to count each individual word. Our calculation ignores spelling mistakes, grammar, and double spaces.
For example, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" comprises of 9 words in total.
How are characters counted?
Characters are counted by totalling the number of letters, punctuation marks, and spaces within the text. E.g., "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" has 43 characters altogether.
An additional count for characters without spaces is provided. E.g., "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is 35 characters without spaces in total.
How are sentences counted?
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).
For example, the sentence "Hello John! How is the weather today?" would count as two sentences.