Word Count
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-14.
Extension Actions
Counts words in selections.
A browser extension for viewing the number of words in text selections. Click extension button to activate, then the count appears in the top-right corner of the browser window.
NOTE: Tabs must be reloaded after installing for the extension to work.
• Select text (with mouse or keyboard) to see the number of words
• Quickly view the number of words on an entire page using keyboard shortcut (OS X: CMD-a, Windows: CTRL-a)
• Click the extension button to activate/deactivate
Words are counted by splitting selected text on whitespace and considering resulting groups of characters to be words if they contain at least one "alphanumeric" character.
See also: Character Count: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/character-count/bpjdkinahbalcimnlaijodhiigpfkmjf
Latest reviews
- Human13
- Didn't work on PC
- Alexandru Ion
- its not working anymore, neither the character count by the same developer.
- Mendel J
- Perfect. No right click needed
- ДНК Строитель
- Не работает с русским языком.
- Connie Wildermuth
- Didn't work.
- Nadezda Ershova
- does not work in PDFs
- Anonymous
- My favourite word count extension. Many others you have to copy and paste or right click, but this one all you need to do is highlight and I love it. I use it all the time! Highly recommend!
- Arif Billah
- It was perfect, accurate, and SUPER SIMPLE.
- James Seaman
- So many other word count tool are overly complex. The beauty of this addon is its simplicity and accuracy. Well done.
- Tana Sulaiman
- Simple and quick.