Word Count Tool

Analyzing Your Text: Word & Character Counts

Whether you're writing an essay to meet a specific word count, crafting a social media post with character limits, or analyzing text data, accurately counting words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs is often necessary. This tool provides a quick and easy way to get these metrics.

How to Use

1. Paste your text directly into the text area provided.
2. Alternatively, you can type directly into the box.
3. The counts for Words, Characters (with and without spaces), Sentences, and Paragraphs will update automatically as you type or after you paste.

How Counts Are Determined (Typical Logic)

• Words:** Counted based on spaces and punctuation separating sequences of characters. Hyphenated words are usually counted as one.
• Characters (with spaces):** Includes every single character typed, including spaces, punctuation, and line breaks.
• Characters (no spaces):** Counts all characters except for whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines).
• Sentences:** Estimated by counting sentence-ending punctuation marks (periods ., question marks ?, exclamation points !). Accuracy can vary with complex sentence structures or abbreviations.
• Paragraphs:** Estimated by counting newline characters (double line breaks typically separate paragraphs).