Word counter

Paste or type in the box above. Word, character (with and without spaces), line, sentence, and paragraph counts update instantly in your browser. Reading time uses 200 words per minute. No login is required and text is not uploaded to a server.

Yes. The counter is free to use and does not require an account or signup. You can paste text and get live counts immediately in the browser.

For a standard double-spaced document in 12-point Times New Roman with 1-inch margins, one page is roughly 250 to 300 words. Single-spaced text is often about 500 words per page. Font, margins, and headings change the result; paste your draft here for an exact word count, then apply your template's words-per-page rule.

For typical double-spaced academic formatting: 500 words is about 2 pages, 1,000 words is about 4 pages, and 2,500 words is roughly 9 to 10 pages. For single-spaced text, divide those page counts by about two (for example, 1,000 words is often near 2 single-spaced pages). These are estimates only.

As of early 2026, typical caps include Instagram captions up to 2,200 characters, LinkedIn posts up to 3,000 characters, and standard X posts up to 280 characters. Platform limits can change and feed previews can truncate earlier, so verify official docs and use this counter to check before publishing.

Yes. Use Characters (with spaces) for most platform limits, then compare your draft against your target channel. For SEO snippets, many teams draft page titles near 50–60 characters and meta descriptions near 150–160 characters to reduce truncation risk.

Yes. Most platform and form limits count spaces, tabs, and line breaks toward the character total. This tool shows Characters (with spaces) for those limits and a separate count without spaces when your brief excludes whitespace.

Not always. Some emoji and combined symbols can use more than one underlying code unit, so totals can differ across tools and platforms. When emoji-heavy copy has a strict limit, confirm with the destination platform before publishing.

Different tools use different rules for words, sentences, and special characters. Variations usually come from hyphenated terms, emojis, abbreviations, pasted formatting, or how line breaks are interpreted. Use one counting method consistently for a given assignment or publishing workflow.

Reading time divides your word count by 200 words per minute, then rounds up. Any non-empty text shows at least 1 minute. That reflects a typical silent-reading pace for English prose; dense material may take longer.

There is no single ranking formula. Short, focused posts can win for narrow questions; competitive topics often need enough depth to cover the query fully, which sometimes means 1,500 words or more. Search intent matters more than a target band. Use this counter while you outline so length stays purposeful, not padded.

Yes. Counting runs entirely in your browser. Your text is not uploaded, logged, or stored on a server. You can paste academic essays, client copy, or internal drafts without sending them to us.

Words are split on whitespace for essays, editors, and readability. Tokens are chunks from an AI tokenizer; one word can be one token or several. For English prose on OpenAI's o200k_base encoding, 100 words is often roughly 130 tokens, but code and symbols differ. Use this page for word count; for exact GPT-4o-family token counts and model pricing comparison, use the LLM token counter on this site.