Word & character counter
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Type or paste text to count words, characters, whitespace-free characters, UTF-8 bytes, lines and paragraphs. Cleanup has one-step undo. Lines include blank lines; paragraphs are nonempty blocks separated by blank lines. Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
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Word counter
Type or paste text to count words, characters, whitespace-free characters, UTF-8 bytes, lines and paragraphs. Cleanup has one-step undo. Lines include blank lines; paragraphs are nonempty blocks separated by blank lines. Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Characters
Where supported, visible grapheme clusters count joined emoji as one character; otherwise Unicode code points are used. Word boundaries vary by language and browser. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute, a rough estimate for English prose. Grammar, plagiarism and platform limits are not checked. Your draft stays in page memory; browser history may restore it.