Word Counter — Count English Words Online
Check the length of an English essay, draft or short bio with a word-first counting tool. Word segmentation defaults to English.
Your text is not sent to a server or saved.
Characters are counted as visible graphemes, including combined characters and emoji. Line breaks count as characters with spaces.
The count without spaces excludes spaces, tabs and line breaks. Word counts follow the selected language and may differ from word processors.
How to use
- Type or paste English text. The word count appears first and updates immediately.
- Compare characters with and without spaces and line count, then copy any numeric result.
Formula and conversion method
Word count = number of word-like segments under the selected language rules
Worked example
Hello world → 2 words. Hello world! also has 2 words because punctuation is not counted as a separate word.
Things to know
Hyphens, numbers and line breaks follow your browser’s language segmentation rules. Counts may differ from the destination service’s own counter.