Word Counter

Each emoji you see counts as one character, even emoji built from several parts, such as family or flag emoji.

Yes. Enter a number and choose “words” or “characters”. Characters here include spaces and line breaks. Once you go over, the bar and the message turn red and show how many you are over. Clear the box to hide it.

A word is a run of letters or numbers. Words joined by an apostrophe or hyphen, like “it’s” or “well-known”, count as one word.

It is the number of characters in all your words divided by the number of words, shown to one decimal place. Spaces and punctuation between words are not included.

A sentence ends with . ! or ?, or at a line break. A paragraph is a block of text separated by an empty line. Lines are counted by line breaks, and empty lines count too.

It shows the five words you use most, with how many times each appears and its share of all words. Very common words such as “the” and “and”, words shorter than three letters, and plain numbers are left out.

Reading time assumes 200 words per minute and speaking time assumes 130 words per minute. Real speeds vary from person to person, so use them as a rough guide.

Character counts work for any language. Words are counted by spaces and punctuation, so for languages written without spaces, such as Chinese or Japanese, a whole phrase can count as one word. Use the character count for those.

Yes. On a narrow screen the text box comes first and the counts sit below it. The counts keep updating while you type.

With Premium you can open a text file (.txt, .md, .csv, .html and similar) and count it. Files are read as UTF-8; if the text looks garbled, copy and paste it instead.

Apps count in different ways, for example whether spaces and line breaks are included, how hyphenated words are split, or how emoji are counted. Check which rule your teacher or the form uses, and compare with the matching count here.

Not as a file. Copy the text from the document and paste it into the box to count it.