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Word counter

Count words, Unicode characters, lines, and paragraphs in your text, with a downloadable count report.

Processed on your device

How it works & useful details

How to use this tool

Paste your text and count it. Download the report to keep the totals.

How the result is calculated

Words are runs of Unicode letters or numbers, with combining marks and internal straight or curly apostrophes. Hyphens split words. Text is NFC-normalized for counting; Chinese and Japanese runs are not dictionary-segmented.

Characters count Unicode code points, not visible grapheme clusters: a joined family emoji or a letter plus combining accent can count as several characters. Character counts preserve original line endings, so CRLF contributes two code points. Paragraphs are nonempty blocks separated by blank lines; whitespace-only blocks do not count.

Line tools normalize CRLF and CR to LF. A final newline represents an empty final line; empty input has zero lines.

Up to 500,000 UTF-16 code units per input. Text stays on your device.