Word Counter — Free Online
Type or paste your text and get live counts: total characters, Chinese characters, English words, lines and paragraphs.
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How counting works
Characters counts every character including spaces and punctuation. Chinese chars counts CJK characters (Chinese, Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja). English words counts sequences of Latin letters and digits separated by spaces or punctuation. Paragraphs counts blocks of text separated by blank lines.
Tip: handy for checking essay, thesis or manuscript word counts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does punctuation count as characters?
Yes in "Characters"; use "No spaces" for the count without any whitespace.
Is my text uploaded?
No — counting runs entirely in your browser.
Can I count words in a document?
Copy the text from your Word/PDF and paste it here.