Word Counter

Counts Unicode letter/number sequences, keeping internal apostrophes and hyphens together.

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How Word Counter works

Counts Unicode letter/number sequences, keeping internal apostrophes and hyphens together.

Try an example

Hello, little world! → 3 words.

Good to know

Text stays in this tab. Maximum 100,000 characters. Word and sentence boundaries are estimates; language and punctuation can change counts.

Your privacy

Processing happens on this device for this tool. We do not upload your input, put it in share links or save it to your favourites. Closing this tab discards the working input; downloaded results remain wherever you save them.

When this tool is useful

Use the word counter to check a draft, submission or caption without uploading the text or treating punctuation as a word.

How to use it

Paste or type the text in the editor.
Read words, characters, lines and the other visible statistics as the text changes.
Copy the result only if you need to include the count in a brief or submission form.

Checks before you rely on the result

Words are Unicode letter/number sequences with documented handling for internal apostrophes and hyphens.
Different editors can count emoji, symbols and languages differently.
No pasted text is sent to analytics or included in a share link.

This page is maintained with the tool implementation and its deterministic tests. If the result looks wrong, report the issue with a non-sensitive example.

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