📝 Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in any text.

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What is a Word Counter?

The Word Counter analyses any block of text and instantly reports how many words, characters, and sentences it contains. It's built for students writing college essays and SOPs (statements of purpose) with strict word limits, competitive-exam essay sections, content writers meeting client word-count briefs, and anyone drafting a LinkedIn post, tweet, or WhatsApp broadcast message that needs to fit a length restriction.

How It Works

The tool trims leading and trailing spaces from your text, then splits what remains on any run of whitespace (spaces, tabs, line breaks) to count words. Total characters counts every character including spaces; "characters (no space)" strips out all whitespace first. Sentences are counted by splitting the text wherever a period, question mark, or exclamation mark (or a run of them) appears, then counting only the non-empty fragments that remain.

Words = trimmed text split on whitespace runs (0 if text is empty)
Characters = full text length (incl. spaces)
Characters (no space) = text with all whitespace removed
Sentences = text split on [ . ! ? ]+ , counting non-blank fragments

Worked Example

Type this into the box: "Calculator King helps students, writers, and professionals check word counts instantly. It works in your browser!"

  • Words: 16
  • Characters: 113 (including every space and punctuation mark)
  • Characters (no space): 98
  • Sentences: 2 (split at the period after "instantly" and the exclamation mark at the end)

How to Use This Tool

  1. Paste or type your text into the Your Text box.
  2. Click Calculate.
  3. Read off the word, character, and sentence counts shown below.

Things to Know

💡 Tip: Because "words" are counted by splitting on whitespace, a hyphenated term like "well-known" counts as one word, while a bullet symbol surrounded by spaces counts as its own "word." If you're hitting an exact word-count target for an assignment or job application, paste your final draft here rather than relying on your word processor's count, since counting methods can differ slightly.

Need a breakdown of letters, digits, and spaces instead of words and sentences? Try the Character Counter, or check percentage-based targets with the Percentage Calculator.

📅 Last reviewed: July 2026 · Formulas verified against RBI/SEBI/IT Dept guidelines.