Zovo Word Counter

Zovo Word Counter gives exact counts for any text you paste into the chat: words, characters with and without spaces, letters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and unique words. Every number comes from documented, deterministic rules instead of an estimate, so a 1,500-word essay limit or a 280-character post is checked precisely.

For students and academic writers: count words without citations. Zovo Word Counter can leave out APA and MLA in-text citations such as (Smith, 2020) or (Smith 23), quoted passages, headings, and the reference list or works cited, then shows how many words each exclusion removed. Check a minimum and maximum word count and see exactly where to cut.

For writers, speakers, and marketers: reading time at 238 words per minute, speaking time at 150 words per minute, Flesch reading ease and Flesch-Kincaid grade for English, top keywords with density, the longest sentence, and warnings for sentences over 25 and 40 words.

For social media and SEO: checks X (Twitter) posts with its weighted counting rules (every link counts as 23 characters, emoji and CJK characters count as 2), Threads (500), Bluesky (300 graphemes), LinkedIn posts (3,000), Instagram captions (2,200), SEO title tags (60), meta descriptions (155-160), and SMS messages (160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters per segment, with the characters that force Unicode). When text is too long, it shows the last words that fit and how much to remove.

Works with English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, and other space-separated languages, and splits Japanese, Chinese, and Thai text into words, with CJK character counts.

Privacy: text is processed in memory only to compute the counts. It is not stored or logged, and results contain counts plus short excerpts (such as where to cut) rather than your full text.

Limitations: up to 100,000 characters per request; files such as PDF or Word documents cannot be opened directly, so paste the text. Citation and heading detection follows common APA and MLA patterns and may miss unusual formats. Readability scores are English-only estimates.