How is word count calculated?

The tool prioritizes using the browser's Intl.Segmenter for word segmentation, which can correctly split languages without spaces like Chinese and Japanese; for English, it splits by whitespace and punctuation. Counting Chinese characters as words aligns with Chinese counting conventions.

What's the difference between character count and byte count?

Character count is based on Unicode graphemes (one emoji counts as one); byte count is the total number of bytes when the text is encoded in UTF-8. A Chinese character typically takes 3 bytes, an emoji typically 4 bytes, often used to determine storage or transmission size.

Word Count

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FAQ

Yes, it's secure. All statistics are done locally in your browser; text is never uploaded to any server.

What is Word Count?

Word count is a tool for counting characters, words, lines, paragraphs, and sentences in text. It's particularly useful for writers, students, editors, and marketers: for controlling word count, writing platform-compliant copy, or verifying social media post length, it instantly provides accurate data.

It provides real-time counts for characters, characters without spaces, words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, and UTF-8 bytes. Using browser tokenization, it accurately handles spaceless languages like Chinese and Japanese. All processing occurs locally in the browser; no text is uploaded.

How to Count Words

1Enter or paste the text to be counted in the input box.
2The count updates in real-time as you type; no need to click.
3View multi-dimensional data including character count, word count, line count, paragraph count, sentence count, and byte count.
4If you need to start over, click 'Clear'.

Why Choose Our Word Count Tool

Privacy First: Counting is done locally in the browser; text is not uploaded to the server.

Intelligent tokenization handles spaceless languages like Chinese and Japanese accurately.

Rich Dimensions: Displays multiple data points on one screen: characters, words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, and bytes.