Essay Word Count Checker

This page opens the word counter framed around a specific job: checking a school or college essay draft against an assigned word limit, whether that is a 500-word response, a 650-word personal statement, or a 1,000-word term paper.

Paste your draft and the word count updates on every keystroke, so you can trim or expand as you edit instead of waiting until you think you are done to discover you are 200 words over. Character, sentence and paragraph counts sit right alongside it, useful when a rubric also caps paragraphs or characters.

Word limits in assignments are usually strict for a reason: instructors and admissions readers use them to test whether you can make a point concisely. Everything is checked locally in your browser, so drafts of essays that have not been submitted yet stay private.