Count essay words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and pages. This essay word count calculator also estimates reading time, speaking time, word count progress, words needed, pages needed, and section-by-section essay length.
Count from essay text:
Paste your essay draft to count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs automatically.
Target word count:
Enter a target word count to see progress, words remaining, and whether the essay is under or over the target.
Estimate from pages:
Enter page count and words per page to estimate total essay words.
Essay sections:
Enter section word counts and targets to check introduction, body, and conclusion balance.
An essay word count calculator helps track assignment length and make sure a draft fits the required word count.
It can help with school essays, college essays, scholarship essays, application essays, research papers, timed writing, speeches, and word-limited assignments.
Your result shows word count, words needed, words over target, progress percent, estimated pages, character count, characters without spaces, sentence count, paragraph count, reading time, speaking time, and section-by-section essay progress.
Paste your essay into the text box and click calculate. The calculator counts words by splitting the text into word-like groups.
Using 250 words per page, 1,000 words is about 4 pages. Actual page count depends on formatting, spacing, font size, and margins.
Yes. Enter your target word count and current essay text or manual word count to calculate words remaining.
Yes. It shows total characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated essay length.