Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and keyword density — live, private, unlimited.
Computed locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded or stored.
What this tool does
The Word Counter counts everything about your text as you type: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading and speaking time. It also shows your most frequent words and two-word phrases with their density percentages — the quickest way to catch accidental keyword stuffing or discover you've used 'actually' nineteen times.
Word counts are the working currency of content: articles get briefed at 1,500 words, meta descriptions truncate around 155 characters, tweets cap at 280, and SERP-competitive articles need to be in the neighborhood of what already ranks (our SERP Word Count Checker tells you that number). Density matters too — not as a target to hit, since modern SEO punishes stuffing, but as a smoke alarm: if any single word or phrase is above 3–4%, it will read as repetitive to humans and manipulative to machines.
Everything computes locally in your browser — your text never leaves the page, nothing is stored, and there are no length limits. Draft, paste, check, edit, repeat. When you want scoring that goes beyond counting — coverage, structure, and terms versus the ranking competition — that's SirWritesALot.
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