Word Counter
Paste your text below to see an instant word count, along with character count and unique word count. This is useful for essays, social posts with word limits, or checking a draft against a target length. Nothing you type is uploaded — the count happens entirely in your browser.
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Analysis & CountingAbout the Word Counter
The Word Counter works by splitting your input on whitespace boundaries — spaces, tabs, and line breaks — and counting each non-empty token as one word. Hyphenated compounds like "well-known" or "state-of-the-art" are treated as a single word since the hyphen is not whitespace. Numbers, abbreviations, and contractions each count as one word. This makes the tool reliable for checking essay word limits (e.g. a 500-word college application), verifying blog post length targets, or auditing social media copy. Because all processing runs in-browser via JavaScript, there is no network latency and no privacy risk — your text is never transmitted or stored anywhere.
How is a word counted?▾
The tool splits your text on whitespace (spaces, tabs, and newlines) and counts each resulting non-empty token as one word. Hyphenated words like "well-known" count as a single word.
Does this count hyphenated words as one or two?▾
Hyphenated words are counted as a single word because the hyphen is not whitespace. For example, "state-of-the-art" counts as one word.
Is there a word limit for this tool?▾
No — the tool runs entirely in your browser and can handle any length of text. Performance stays fast even for book-length documents.