Use the count to edit a draft
Paste an essay, script, email, or article into the box. The word total updates immediately, while sentence and paragraph estimates help you spot long sections. If an assignment or publishing system has its own counter, compare your final draft there: word boundaries are not defined identically by every product.
Worked counting examples
Hello world! → 2 words, 12 characters, 11 characters without whitespace, 1 sentence, and 1 paragraph. The exclamation mark counts as a character.One line.
Two lines., where the line break is a single newline, → 4 words, 2 sentences, 1 paragraph. Add a blank line between them to get 2 paragraphs.well-being matters → 2 words. The hyphen does not split the first word.How to Use This Tool
- Type or paste plain text. Try an example fills the box with a sample draft.
- Read the live totals and edit your text until it meets your target.
- Use Copy text to take the revised draft elsewhere; Reset empties the box.
Common Use Cases
Counting rules and limitations
Words are groups separated by whitespace, so well-being counts as one word and hello—world also counts as one. A sentence is a nonempty segment ending in ., !, or ?, or the final unfinished segment. Abbreviations and decimal numbers can affect that estimate. A paragraph is a nonempty block separated by a blank line; a single line break does not start another paragraph.
Counts are calculated locally from the text currently in the box. Rich-text formatting is not counted. The reading-time estimate uses 200 words per minute and rounds up to a whole minute; it is a rough planning aid, not a prediction of every reader’s pace.
Languages without spaces
This tool uses whitespace boundaries, not a language-aware dictionary. A Chinese or Japanese sentence with no spaces can count as one word even when it contains many linguistic words. Use the character counter view when code-point length is more useful.