Word Counter

A simple and free online word counter.

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A simple and free online word counter.

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A free online word counter with a simple UI (and no ads).

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Launch tags:Productivity•Writing•Text Editors

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Hello all, I hope you're well. Do you think text editors give us a correct word count? I thought so. Until, I accidentally discovered otherwise. A while ago, I had to count the total number of words in Moby Dick’s first chapter. (Moby Dick is an American novel written by Herman Melville.) To get that number of words I tried Google Docs first; it gave me a word count of 1655 words. Next, out of curiosity, I tried Apple’s Pages which gave a word count of 1679 words. Then, out of even more curiosity, I tried Grammarly which reported 1648 words. I was puzzled. And I ended up counting words by hand (for the curious it came out to be 1663 words–not the same as text editors’). It’s possible that different vendors use a different, and not same, definition of a word. How do you handle spaces in text, how do you handle dashes or en-dashes or even em-dashes; all this matters. Also, the problem of parsing all kinds of formatted text looks simple but it’s not. All this made me interested in the word-count problem :). So I developed a simple online Word Counter. I don't think it's perfect but I'll try to fix things as I find them. If you come across an issue please let me know. I'll try to solve it soon. I hope you find it useful. Take care!

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