Words, clearly defined.
Latin-script words and numbers count as words. “Don’t” and “well-known” each count as one. Chinese characters are shown separately.
Word count. Zero fuss.
Your words, your numbers. Nothing uploaded.
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Select part of your text to count just that section.
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Characters that make sense.
Visible character clusters count once, including a combined emoji. Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks. Line endings are normalized.
Count only what you need.
Select a sentence or section to see its counts below the editor. The main numbers and target always refer to the full text.
A few useful answers.
Will this exactly match Word or an application form?
Not necessarily. Different services count punctuation, hyphens, emoji and whitespace differently. This tool shows its rules explicitly; use the destination’s own counter when its limit is binding.
How is Chinese counted?
Each Han-script character counts once in the Chinese / Han total. Punctuation is excluded from that total, but included in the character counts. Han characters used in Japanese also count here. We do not estimate Chinese word boundaries.
What counts as a paragraph?
A non-empty block separated by one or more blank lines is one paragraph. A single line break stays inside the same paragraph.