Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in pasted or typed text, in real time.
Word count here follows whitespace-separated tokens — useful as a quick estimate, but the definitive count for academic or legal submissions is whatever your target application reports.
The four common case styles aren't interchangeable — here's what each one is actually for, and the fastest way to fix text that was typed in the wrong one.
A practical reference for the character limits you actually run into — texts, tweets, meta descriptions, title tags — and which ones count spaces.
Word count sounds like a solved problem, but tools genuinely disagree — here's exactly how words, sentences, and paragraphs get counted, and why the number can shift between tools.