Word Counter

Both, shown separately. Twitter and most social platforms count spaces, while some academic and form limits do not. Checking the wrong one is a common way to submit something that gets rejected.

Nothing leaves the page. To count words online usually means pasting your draft into somebody's server, which is a poor trade for a number you can have instantly — this counts as you type, in the browser, so an unpublished manuscript or a confidential report stays where it is.

Yes, and it gives both figures, because the two things that ask for a character count disagree about spaces. A meta description limit counts them; some form validators do not. Both numbers are on screen at once so you do not have to guess which one the thing in front of you means.

At 225 words per minute, which is the widely used average for adult silent reading of general prose. Dense technical material is slower and light fiction is faster, so treat it as a guide rather than a promise.

Yes. It uses the browser's built-in text segmentation rather than splitting on spaces, so languages without word spacing are counted properly. Tools that split on whitespace report an entire Chinese paragraph as one word.

Words like the, and, of and is are filtered out, along with anything under three letters, because they would otherwise dominate every list and tell you nothing. The list is there to reveal which meaningful words you are repeating.

No. Everything is counted in your browser as you type. Nothing is sent to a server, which makes it safe for drafts, confidential documents and unpublished work.