📊 Word & Character Counter
Analyze your text with comprehensive statistics including word count, character count, line count, and word frequency analysis. Perfect for content analysis, SEO optimization, and text validation.
- Type or paste your text in the textarea
- Statistics update in real-time as you type
- View character count, word count, and line count
- See word frequency sorted by most common words
- Calculate average word length automatically
- Perfect for content analysis and optimization
📝 Example:
- SEO content analysis and optimization
- Writing quality and readability assessment
- Keyword frequency analysis for content marketing
- Academic paper and essay validation
- Social media content optimization
- Email and message composition
- Translation and localization analysis
What each of the six numbers means
| Figure | Definition |
|---|---|
| Characters | Everything typed, spaces and line breaks included. An emoji counts as two. |
| Chars (No Spaces) | The same with every space, tab and newline stripped. Punctuation still counts. |
| Words | Runs of letters, digits and underscores |
| Lines | Non-empty lines only; blank ones are ignored |
| Paragraphs | Blocks separated by one completely empty line |
| Avg Word Length | Non-space characters divided by words |
That last division uses characters, not letters, so punctuation inflates it: Hello, world! reports 6.00 for two five-letter words. Treat it as a rough density measure rather than a true average.
Where the word boundaries fall
A word is a run of letters, digits or underscores, and anything else splits it:
don't -> don, t (2 words)
state-of-the-art -> state, of, the, art (4 words)
3.5 -> 3, 5 (2 words)
my_variable -> my_variable (1 word)
café -> caf (1 word)- Hyphens and apostrophes cost you. If a compound must count once, swap the hyphen for an underscore before pasting.
- Accented letters are cut off at the accent, which also shows in the frequency table as a truncated word.
- Non-Latin scripts match nothing. Russian, Greek, Arabic and Chinese text reports zero words and an empty frequency table, though the character counts remain correct.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my word count higher than the one in Word?
Word treats don't and well-known as single words. This tool splits at the apostrophe and the hyphen, so a contraction-heavy page can read several percent higher here.
Do spaces count as characters?
In the first box yes, in the second no. Chars (No Spaces) also drops tabs and line breaks, which is the figure most character limits on forms and meta descriptions actually mean.
How many words is 500 characters?
Around 80 to 90 in ordinary English prose, where words average five letters plus a space. The Avg Word Length figure lets you check that ratio for your own writing.