Count Number of Word & letters - Online & Offline tools

Do you want to count number of words and confused about easiest approach for yourself?  Here are some of the ways for you to count the number of words from the text. There are lots of online tools available these days, but why not take advantage of MS Word which is the most common softwatware?

Count words offline using MS word

MS word application is the easiest and quickest way to count words as well as characters. This is one of the hidden features of MS word which can come handy.

• Copy and paste the content in MS Word
• Shortcut to count words is button present on left bottom of your MS word application
• Click on it to know the exact number of words and Characters

An identical option is also accessible if you navigate to MS Word >> Review >> Word count.

Online tools to count words

A lot of bloggers use online tools to count number of words in each article. The articles having 500 + words are considered a good article which has the ability to rank well in Google Search engines.

We have created an online demo tool for you to check the word strength.

This is a block of text with a number of words. How many words? Click the button to find out.

wordcounter.net
It's a very popular Online tool which easiest to use and gives you more details like - keyword density, no. Of characters, sentences. This will be very helpful if you want to check the keywords strength in your articles to make sure it doesn't pass a particular percentage.

wordcountertool.com
Simplified word counter with no fancy functionalities.

How to count characters

Sometimes our focus is to know the number of characters, rather than the words. lettercount.com is a quick tool which tells you count of total characters used.

Apart from these websites, there are thousands of websites which offer similar features and there are different reasons to choose different tools. We will suggest our readers to use the MS word as it is the easiest tool and known to give perfect results.