Word-budget editing
Reduce word count with a clear target.
Paste your English draft and choose a word limit. This word count reducer calculates how much to cut, removes unnecessary wording, and tells you honestly whether the result fits. It does not cut off sentences just to reach a number.
Set a word budget
Choose a maximum of 1–300 words. Facts come before hitting a number.
English text editing. Guest and account limits are shared with the sentence shortener, not reset per tool. Ctrl/⌘ + Enter runs an edit. Your text is subject to our content policy; see how text is processed.
How to reduce word count to your limit
Calculate the gap
Enter your maximum word count from 1 to 300, or use a percentage preset. The live calculation shows how many words need to go. Presets use the current draft and are capped at 300 words.
Protect information that must stay
Add essential terms, separated by commas. The editor works on wordiness first; an ambitious budget is not permission to delete evidence, conditions or caveats.
Check the actual result
Compare the original and revised word counts. If the revision is still over target, the remaining gap is shown. Decide which ideas you can remove yourself, or choose a more realistic target.
A word budget is a constraint, not a reason to lose facts
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Before you submit text to a word-limited field
- Check the destination’s counter: hyphenated words, URLs and citations may be counted differently.
- Keep a little room below a hard limit if the receiving platform uses another counting method.
- Confirm that required citations, names and qualifiers survived the edit.
- If the gap is still large, reconsider the scope of the draft instead of repeatedly cutting connective words.
What if the word target is too low?
A target is a maximum to work toward, not an exact-output guarantee. The tool may return a result above the limit when stronger cuts would risk losing information. Our counter identifies English word-like groups of letters and digits, including internal apostrophes and hyphens; punctuation can split a group. Your submission form may use different rules. For a passage whose structure matters more than a number, use the paragraph shortener.
Need a different editing task? Shorten paragraphs while keeping their structure. For a single line, use the sentence shortener. See current allowances and plans.
Questions before you edit
Can I reduce my draft by a percentage?
Yes. The 10%, 25% and 50% presets calculate a target from your current draft, rounded down to a whole word and kept within the supported 1–300-word range. The live preview shows the actual target and required reduction before you run an edit.
Does the tool guarantee an exact word count?
No. It works toward a maximum while trying to keep the information. If the result exceeds the target, you see how many words remain above it. It does not truncate the result to manufacture a successful count.
How are words counted?
The counter identifies English word-like groups of letters and digits, allowing apostrophes and hyphens within a word. Punctuation can separate groups even without spaces. Other platforms may count differently, so verify the final text in the destination field as well.
Does an unmet target use my allowance?
An accepted AI edit uses the existing shared allowance even if it is above target. Usage is not a guarantee that a particular target is achievable. Local fallback edits are labeled separately. Check the allowance shown in the editor before running another edit.
Find words you can safely remove
- Redundant phrases: examples and shorter alternatives
A practical replacement table with exceptions you should not blindly delete.
- Filler words in writing: what to cut and what to keep
A keep-or-cut decision process, not a blacklist of words.