What is WordCounter?

WordCounter is a private academic word counter for essays, abstracts, reports, research drafts, and other long-form writing. It counts your text in real time so you can check length requirements while you write, revise, or paste a finished draft.

The tool calculates words, characters, characters without whitespace, letters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, unique words, and common words directly in your browser. Your text stays on your device, and autosave uses browser storage to restore your latest draft when enabled.

How to use WordCounter

• Paste or type your document. Add an essay, abstract, assignment, article draft, or research note into the editor.
• Review academic counts. Check words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and unique words as the numbers update.
• Inspect repeated terms. Use the most common words section to find repeated words and improve clarity in your writing.
• Keep drafts local. Leave autosave on to restore your latest text in the same browser, or turn it off to remove the saved draft.

Academic counting notes

WordCounter treats numbers and citation years as words, keeps contractions and hyphenated terms together, and normalizes line endings so each line break counts as one character. Paragraphs are counted as non-empty blocks separated by blank lines.

Common use cases

Use WordCounter for checking essay word limits, abstract length, scholarship applications, journal drafts, article outlines, discussion posts, cover letters, and any writing task where word count and character count matter.