ref: 72903be587e9c4e3644f60b11e26238ec03da2db
dir: /docs/content/functions/countwords.md/
---
title: countwords
description: Counts the number of words in a string.
godocref:
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
menu:
docs:
parent: "functions"
keywords: [counting, word count]
signature: ["countwords INPUT"]
workson: []
hugoversion:
relatedfuncs: [countrunes]
deprecated: false
aliases: [/functions/countrunes/,/functions/countwords/]
---
The template function works similar to the [.WordCount page variable][pagevars].
```
{{ "Hugo is a static site generator." | countwords }}
<!-- outputs a content length of 6 words. -->
```
[pagevars]: /variables/page/