Word Counter
When you need to inspect the source text and report counts and text statistics, Word Counter gives you a browser-based workflow with a visible input, primary action, and counts and text statistics.
How to Use Word Counter
- Prepare the source text and enter or select the source text in the workspace.
- Review the available options, then choose Count to run the task.
- Inspect counts and text statistics, compare it with the source and selected settings, and save or copy it only after it meets your requirements.
What Is the Word Counter?
The Word Counter is a free online utility that helps you count words and inspect basic text statistics for articles, essays, posts, and documents. It provides a focused workspace for writers, editors, developers, students, and office users.
Text utilities help clean, transform, count, compare, and reorganize text without opening a full editor or writing a script. The current interface gives you Input, Output so the task can be completed without navigating away from the page.
Key features
- Count
- Input
- Output
When to Use This Tool
- Quick one-off tasks using the Word Counter without setting up a separate desktop utility.
- Checking or preparing data while debugging, documenting, publishing, or testing a workflow.
- Creating a clean result that can be copied, downloaded, or transferred into another application.
Tips for better results
- Keep a copy of the original text before destructive transformations.
- Review whitespace and line endings when the output will be used in code or data files.
- For large text sets, spot-check the beginning, middle, and end of the result.
Word Counter Example
Paste “Launch notes: draft 2” as a short test, apply Word Counter, and compare spelling, punctuation, line breaks, and character counts with the original text.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I provide to Word Counter?
Provide the source text. When available, complete the labeled controls with representative, correctly formatted values before running the primary action.
What should I check in the Word Counter result?
Review counts and text statistics for completeness and compare it with the original input, selected options, and the requirements of the application where you will use it.
Can Word Counter change the meaning of my text?
Review the transformed text for wording, punctuation, whitespace, encoding, and meaning before publishing or reusing it.