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Word Counter

Count words, characters, check readability, sentiment, SEO score and more.

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Type or paste some text above to see a comprehensive writing analysis.

How to Use This Word Counter

Workflow

  1. Paste or type your text into the main editor.
  2. View live word, character, and paragraph counts in the Stats tab.
  3. Check Readability to ensure your writing is easy to digest.
  4. Use Keywords to track the density of specific terms.
  5. Review Social limits to ensure your text fits platform constraints.
  6. Explore the Tools tab for quick actions, passive voice detection, and text-to-speech.

Understanding the Metrics

  • Lexical Diversity: The percentage of unique words used. Higher means more varied vocabulary.
  • Flesch Reading Ease: A score from 0-100. Higher scores indicate easier readability.
  • Content Score: A heuristic evaluation of your text's structure, length, and readability. Not a direct SEO ranking factor.
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About This Tool

The Word Counter is a free online tool that does much more than just count words. It analyzes your text in real-time to show character counts, sentence lengths, and exact reading time. Whether you are writing a school essay, a blog post, or a social media update, this tool helps you hit specific limits. It includes dedicated tabs for checking readability, tracking SEO keyword density, analyzing the emotional sentiment of your writing, and even detecting passive voice to make your sentences stronger.

Everything runs instantly in your browser, so your text is never saved or uploaded.

How to Use

  1. 1Type or paste your text into the main text box at the top.
  2. 2Click the "Stats" tab to see your total words, characters, sentences, and reading time.
  3. 3Click the "Readability" tab to check your Flesch Reading Ease score and see what grade level your text matches.
  4. 4Use the "Keywords" tab to type a specific word and see how often you used it (keyword density).
  5. 5Click the "Social" tab to make sure your text fits the character limits for Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
  6. 6Explore the "Tools" tab to quickly convert text to UPPERCASE, find repeated phrases, or listen to your text read aloud.

Frequently Asked Questions

It calculates reading time based on an average adult reading speed of 200 words per minute. If your text has 400 words, it will estimate a 2-minute read.

Yes. Go to the Keywords tab, type your focus keyword into the search box, and the tool will show you exactly what percentage of your text contains that word. For SEO, it is usually best to keep your keyword density between 1% and 3%.

Yes! The "Tools" tab includes a Passive Voice Detector. It scans your sentences and highlights any that might be passive, helping you rewrite them to be more active, direct, and engaging.

Absolutely. All text analysis happens locally inside your browser. Your writing is never uploaded to a server, saved to a database, or read by anyone else, ensuring complete privacy.

Click the "Social" tab. As you type in the main text box, this tab will automatically show you how many characters you have left for Twitter (280), Instagram (2200), LinkedIn (3000), and Facebook (63206). You can also set a custom limit.

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