Word Counter Online — Count Words, Characters, and Lines
A free online word counter and character counter. Paste any text and see live counts of words, characters, lines, and unique words. Useful when writing meta descriptions and OG tags under a length limit, checking essay or commit-message length, sizing tweets and SMS bodies, or auditing prose for repeated vocabulary. Every count is computed locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Features
Live word & character count
Counts update as you type. Works on any language, including CJK and emoji-rich text.
Line and unique-word counts
See the number of lines and the count of unique whitespace-separated tokens — useful for auditing repeated terms.
Trim, sort, dedupe lines
One-click operations to trim whitespace, sort lines alphabetically, deduplicate, and remove blank lines.
Case transforms in the same panel
When you also need to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title-Case the text, the buttons are right there.
How to count words online
Paste text and read the live counters next to the Input label.
- Paste or type your textDrop your text into the input field. The counter updates instantly.
- Read the stats lineSee chars · words · lines summarized above the textarea.
- Clean up if neededUse Trim Lines, Remove Empty, or Unique Lines to drop noise before counting again.
Examples
Count words in a paragraph
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9 words · 44 chars · 1 line
Count unique terms in a list
alpha beta alpha gamma
4 words · 3 unique · 4 lines
Frequently Asked Questions
- How are words counted?
- A word is any run of non-whitespace characters separated by whitespace. Punctuation attached to a word counts with it (so "Hello," is one word). This matches the convention used by most editors and Twitter's character count.
- Does the counter handle emojis and CJK characters?
- Yes. Characters count JavaScript code units; emoji surrogate pairs count as 2 code units (matching typical SMS limits). CJK characters with no whitespace count as one word per visual run, which is the standard convention.
- Can I get a byte count?
- For UTF-8 byte size, encode the text first using the Base64 or Hex Encoder tool — the byte length is shown there. Native byte counts are on the roadmap.
- Is anything stored or sent to a server?
- No. All counting runs locally in JavaScript. No network requests, no logging, no analytics on your input.
- Is it free?
- Yes — every EasyDev tool is free, ad-free, and signup-free.