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A word counter answers a question that comes up constantly: is this the right length? Essays have limits, job applications have limits, meta descriptions get truncated, and social posts are cut off mid-sentence. Rather than pasting a draft into a word processor to find out, you can paste it here and see every figure at once.
The counts update on every keystroke, so you can trim toward a target instead of guessing and re-checking. Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and estimated reading time are all shown together, which makes it easy to see whether a piece is long because it has more to say or because the sentences have grown unwieldy.
Everything happens in your browser. The text you paste never travels across the network, which matters when the draft is a client proposal, an unpublished article or anything covered by an NDA. Close the tab and it is gone.
Both figures are shown. "Characters" includes spaces and punctuation, which is what social platforms and SMS count; "characters, no spaces" is the figure most universities and style guides mean.
At 200 words per minute, the usual silent-reading average for adults. Technical or unfamiliar material reads slower, so treat it as a floor rather than a promise.
Any run of characters separated by whitespace. Hyphenated words count as one, and numbers count as words — the same rule Word and Google Docs use.
No. The counting runs in this tab with JavaScript. Nothing is sent to a server, stored or logged, so confidential drafts stay confidential.
No practical limit. Full manuscripts count instantly because there is no round trip to a server.
Yes — watch the "characters" figure and aim for roughly 150 to 160 so Google is unlikely to truncate your description in search results.
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