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Word Counter

by Benni

v0.1.5 Updated Aug 29, 2025 27.05KiB
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30K
Users
★ 3.31
16 reviews
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Description

Word Counter is a simple extension that helps you get the number of words and characters in a text selection via context-menu. Simply select a text with the mouse, then right-click and select - Count words & characters - from the context menu. A popup will appear to inform you about the number of words in the selected text. Besides this number, it also informs you about average word length, number of total characters, number of special characters, and the longest word. This addon has no settings or options to adjust. Simply add it to your browser and start using it. It works on any web page as long as you can select a word or sentence. Please note that this addon does not have a toolbar icon. If you want to report bugs or have a feature request, please fill the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/word-counter.html).
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Reviews (6 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-01
Arkylie (Kilyle)

Thirty seconds in and I've discovered that it counts em-dashes as part of a word. These are punctuation marks that act like spaces or parentheses, and they do not combine words the way a hyphen would (too-sweet: one word; trying—desperately—to escape: four words, not two). Checked a piece with a known wordcount of 21,586. Going chapter by chapter, it gave totals that added to 21,356 -- off by 230 words. It also gave the following "longest words": something—anything—else almost—almost—broken disappears—but fate—inescapable dripping—[character's name] [occupation]—[character's name]—standing NONE of those are single words. They are two or three words and should not be counted as single words. This plugin needs a serious upgrade to be anything like reliable.

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-02
Christopher Ruel

It only worked once.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-19
Same Rainbows

wouldn't recommend.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-10
Adam Scott Gilbert

poorest extension. not working

★☆☆☆☆2019-03-26

It doesn't work at all

★★★☆☆2021-10-25
Pat MySecret

Yet another context-menu-accessed counter. This one requires a right click, going to the tab, and then a left click. Cumbersome.. There are others that do it easier. It has the non-standard feature of stating the longest word.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.1.5
Updated Aug 29, 2025
Size 27.05KiB
First Seen Mar 24, 2026