Word Counter

What is this tool?

A word counter measures words, characters, characters without spaces, and lines so you can fit a brief, a caption, or a meta description.

Publishers, classrooms, and platforms disagree on what a “word” is. This counter splits on whitespace and ignores extra spaces. Hyphenated compounds and URLs are treated as they land in the box — they are not special-cased like a linguistics tokenizer.

Character count includes punctuation and spaces (JavaScript string length). “No spaces” strips whitespace so you can see density. Emoji may count as more than one code unit. If a CMS later shows a different number, it often stripped HTML or counted Markdown syntax.

Paste unpublished drafts here when you do not want to send them to a third-party writing app. The count updates as you type.

How to use

1. Paste or type the text.
2. Read live counts for words, characters, characters without spaces, and lines.
3. Copy or download the stats if you need to attach them to a draft.

Example

Hello world!
This is a short example.

{
  "words": 7,
  "characters": 36,
  "charactersNoSpaces": 30,
  "lines": 2
}

Benefits

• See four metrics at once.
• Useful for captions, SEO descriptions, and assignments.
• Updates while you type.
• Stays in the browser.

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