word count

Name: word count
Rating: 3.1 (11 reviews)
Author: trishul.goel

Counts words and characters in selected text

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The Word Count Chrome extension provides a quick and efficient way to count the number of words and characters in any selected text on your browser. Perfect for writers, editors, and anyone needing precise text statistics, this tool helps streamline your workflow by delivering instant text analysis without leaving the page. Simply highlight the text, and the extension will show the exact word and character counts, making it an essential utility for content creation and editing tasks.

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2.0 Last updated: 2020-06-29

Creation date:

2020-06-29

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Permissions:

contextMenus
notifications
activeTab

Size:

13.50KB

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Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-18

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Ranking

# 4,474 ▲ 5

Other rankings

#2 in word count keyword 25 ▲ 1 #56 in counter keyword 28 ▼ 1

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Word count (v1.0.0)

109 5.00

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User reviews

Works well enough - the count popus up as a notification, but would have been nicer if it was displayed in the context menu, or bar at the bottom of the window.

by Ca*****, 2023-11-23

useless .doesnt work at all

by mu*****, 2022-03-20

Didn't work at all, do not add on

by Ja*****, 2021-10-31

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word count requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.

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word count has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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