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Jump to 250, 500, 750, 1,000, 1,500, or 2,000 words, while retaining the freedom to enter any custom target.
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Essay Word Counter
Stay inside an assignment’s word limit with exact live counts, essay-length presets, paragraph balance, reading time, and keyword insights.
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Essay workspace
Write toward your target
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Select any passage to measure it separately
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Keep working with your text.
Move from an assignment-specific count to broader text analysis, capitalization cleanup, or typing practice.
How it works
Hit your essay target in three steps.
Start with the limit your teacher, school, or application provides. The counter keeps the target visible while you draft and revise.
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Choose your word target
Select a common essay length from 250 to 2,000 words, or enter the exact limit from your assignment.
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Paste or write your essay
The workspace counts words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and repeated keywords as you type.
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Finish within the limit
Use the live under, exact, or over-target message to revise, then copy your essay or download a plain-text draft.
Built for assignments
Useful essay feedback without leaving the editor.
Structure at a glance
Check paragraphs, sentences, average paragraph length, sentence length, vocabulary, and estimated reading time together.
A private local draft
Your essay is analyzed and auto-saved only in this browser. It is kept separate from drafts in the general Word Counter.
Essay counting questions
Word limits, privacy, and accurate counting.
What counts as a word in an essay?+
Toolkit uses language-aware browser segmentation when available. Letters and numbers form words, while spaces and punctuation alone do not. Your school or submission system may treat some hyphenated terms differently, so its final count should take priority.
Can I set any essay word limit?+
Yes. The preset buttons cover several common lengths, and the target field accepts a custom goal up to 999,999 words.
Does the counter show when I exceed the limit?+
Yes. It reports how many words remain, when the count exactly matches the target, and how many words the essay is over.
Is my essay uploaded or used for training?+
No. The analysis happens in your browser. The draft can be auto-saved in local browser storage, but it is not sent to Toolkit.
Can I count just one paragraph or passage?+
Yes. Highlight any part of the essay in the editor to see a separate word and character count for that selection.
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