Word Counter

Anything separated by whitespace counts as one word — letters, numbers, or a mix like “COVID-19”. A hyphenated word counts once, while “word / word” with spaces around the slash counts as three items. This is the same rule most text editors use.

Yes. “2026” or “€99” each count as one word because they stand alone between spaces. If you need only alphabetic words counted, remove standalone numbers first.

No. The page runs the counting code directly in your browser. You could disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the counter would keep working.

Edge cases: Word sometimes treats text in footnotes, text boxes or fields differently, and em-dashes without spaces can join two words into one. For normal prose the counts should match exactly.

Words divided by 200 (an average adult reading pace for body text), rounded up to the next whole minute. A 450-word text shows 3 minutes.

A chunk of text that ends with a period, exclamation mark, question mark or ellipsis. Abbreviations like “e.g.” can add an extra count occasionally — no automatic counter is perfect at this, including the ones in paid writing apps.

Blocks of text separated by an empty line. A single line break inside a block (like poetry lines) does not start a new paragraph.

Yes. Counting is alphabet-independent — Latin, Cyrillic, Greek or mixed text all count the same way, and accented characters like č, š and ž are handled as normal letters.

No hard limit. Whole book chapters count instantly because everything runs locally — there is no server round trip to slow it down.

Yes, that is a separate number in the result panel. It is often used for translation pricing, where agencies charge per character excluding spaces.