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🔢 Word Counter

Real-time count of words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time and keyword density. Perfect for essays, blog posts, tweets, meta descriptions, or any writing that has a limit.

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About Word Counter

Word Counter is a free browser-based tool for tracking the length of anything you write. Paste your text and watch the counts update in real time — words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, keyword density, and more. Perfect for hitting exact word limits on essays, blog posts, tweets, or SEO meta tags.

Beyond counting, it surfaces useful writing statistics: your longest word, average word length, longest sentence, and the top-10 most-used words by frequency (keyword density). A word-goal progress bar lets you see how close you are to your target as you type.

100% client-side: counting runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded or stored — safe for drafts, private notes, or confidential writing.

How to use Word Counter

1

Paste or type text

Everything counts as you type — no button to press.

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Set a word goal

Enter your target (default 500). The progress bar shows how close you are.

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Watch the stats

Words, characters, sentences, reading time, keyword density, and platform limits all update live.

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Copy or download

Copy your text, copy the full stats block, or download your text as a .txt file.

Key Features

Live word + character counting

Every keystroke updates the counts instantly. Two character measures — with spaces and without — for platforms that treat whitespace differently.

Sentence + paragraph detection

We split on ., !, and ? for sentences and blank lines for paragraphs, then show averages so you can spot run-on sentences at a glance.

Reading + speaking time

Reading time is calculated at 225 words per minute (typical adult reading speed for prose). Speaking time uses 130 wpm — the standard for narration, presentations, and voice-overs.

Keyword density (top 10)

The 10 most-frequent non-stopword tokens in your text, with bar-chart proportions. Great for SEO — makes sure you're not stuffing one word or under-mentioning your focus keyword.

Platform-limit tracker

Live green/red indicators for tweet (280), meta description (160), title tag (60), SMS (160), and Facebook post (63,206) limits. Never write past a hard cap again.

Word-goal progress bar

Set a target word count and watch a bar fill toward it as you type. Perfect for essays, assignments, or NaNoWriMo-style daily targets.

Extras: longest word, longest sentence, unique words

Extra metrics for editors — spot your longest sentence to break up walls of text, or your unique-word count to gauge vocabulary variety.

Common Use Cases

  • Hitting exact word limits on essays, college applications, and assignments
  • SEO writing — keeping titles under 60 chars, meta descriptions under 160, and monitoring keyword density
  • Tweet drafting — staying inside 280 characters
  • Blog post pacing — checking reading time before publishing
  • Podcast / video script timing — using the speaking-time estimate
  • SMS marketing — staying inside the single-message 160-char limit
  • Editing — finding the longest sentence to break up, or the most-repeated word to swap
  • NaNoWriMo / daily writing streaks — using the goal bar as a motivation tool

Security & Privacy

  • 100% client-side: everything runs in your browser via plain JavaScript. No text ever leaves your device.
  • Works offline: once the page loads, disconnect and it still works.
  • No logging of content: we never see, store, or index your writing.
  • Safe for drafts + private notes: use it for confidential writing without exposure risk.
  • No signup, no ads: just paste text and get stats.

Frequently Asked Questions

A word is any sequence of non-whitespace characters separated by whitespace. So don't, state-of-the-art, and tools.com each count as one word. This matches Microsoft Word and Google Docs conventions.
We use 225 words/minute for reading (a well-cited average for adult silent reading of general prose) and 130 wpm for speaking (the standard pacing for narration, TED-style talks, and voice-overs).
No. Common English stopwords like the, and, of, to are filtered so the top-10 reflects meaningful vocabulary. Words are lowercased before counting so Cat and cat merge.
No. Everything runs in your browser. Disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works — proof nothing is uploaded.
Yes — the layout collapses to a single column on narrow screens. Type or paste text and every counter updates live.
Yes. Completely free, no signup, no ads, no limits on text size.