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Professional Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and analyze your text instantly.
Runs 100% in your browser
Unicode, Hindi & emoji ready
TXT · DOCX · PDF export
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Your text stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded just to count your words.
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Reading time · 200 wpm
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Speaking time · 130 wpm
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Track progress toward a word or character target
Progress, remaining count and milestones update live and are saved on this device only.
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Start writing to see average lengths, unique and repeated words, keyword density
and more — all calculated inside your browser.
Most used words & keyword density
Readability Analysis
Flesch formulas for English text
Top Keywords
Top 10 meaningful words — stop words filtered
Text Formatting
One-click transforms — every change is undoable
Made a mistake? Press Ctrl+Z (or ⌘Z) to step back.
Find & Replace
Fast on text of any size
Download & Export
Files are generated on your device — your exact current text
Filenames: Tools24-Word-Counter.txt / .docx / .pdf — nothing leaves your browser during export.
What is a Word Counter?
A word counter is a writing utility that measures a piece of text as you type or paste it. Beyond the headline word count, a good counter tells you how many characters (with and without spaces), sentences and paragraphs you have written, how long the text takes to read or deliver aloud, and how the vocabulary is distributed. Writers use these numbers to hit assignment limits, editors use them to enforce briefs, and marketers watch character counts to fit meta descriptions, ad copy and social posts.
How to Count Words Online?
- Click into the editor and type, or press the Paste button to bring in text from your clipboard.
- All six core counters update instantly — words, characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and lines.
- Optionally set a Writing Goal (for example, 1,000 words) and watch the live progress bar fill up.
- Open Text Analysis and Readability to polish vocabulary and sentence structure.
- When you are done, export the exact text as TXT, DOCX or PDF — generated entirely on your device.
Who Can Use This Word Counter?
Students checking essay limits, blog and book writers tracking daily output, translators billing per word, legal and academic professionals working inside strict length rules, social media managers fitting posts into platform character caps, and teachers preparing reading-time estimates for handouts. Because the tool understands Devanagari and other Unicode scripts, it is just as accurate for Hindi composition as it is for English.
Word Count vs Character Count
Word count measures how many words a text contains; character count measures every individual letter, digit, punctuation mark and space. Universities and publishers usually specify words, while platforms with hard input limits — tweets, SMS, meta titles and descriptions — specify characters.
| Where it matters | Usual limit | Measured in |
|---|---|---|
| Essays & assignments | 250 – 5,000 | Words |
| Blog & SEO articles | 800 – 3,000 | Words |
| Meta description | ~155 | Characters |
| Social posts | 280 – 2,200 | Characters |
| Text message (SMS) | 160 | Characters |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a word counter?
A word counter is a tool that counts the words, characters, sentences and paragraphs in your text in real time as you type or paste it, so you never have to count manually.
How accurate is the Tools24 word counter?
It uses Unicode-aware tokenisation similar to major word processors: hyphenated words and contractions like “state-of-the-art” or “don’t” count as one word, stray punctuation is ignored, and numbers attached to words (like Tools24) stay part of the same word.
Does it count Hindi words?
Yes. Devanagari text — including matras and conjuncts — is tokenised correctly, and the Hindi danda (।) and double danda (॥) are treated as sentence endings just like a full stop.
Does it count characters?
Yes, both including and excluding spaces. Counting is grapheme-aware, so a multi-part emoji such as a family counts as a single character rather than several broken code units.
Can I download my text?
Yes — export your exact current text as TXT, DOCX or PDF. Every file is generated locally in your browser and preserves line breaks, Hindi, Unicode and emojis.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Counting, analysis and file generation all happen on your device. Your text stays in your browser and is never sent to a server just to count words.
Can I use it on mobile?
Absolutely. The layout is mobile-first and works comfortably on screens from 320 px wide up to large desktop monitors, with touch-friendly buttons throughout.
Can I calculate reading time?
Yes. Reading time is estimated at 200 words per minute and speaking time at 130 words per minute — shown as “Less than 1 min” or minutes and seconds, never decimals.