Notepad does not have a word counter. If you wish to count words in a Notepad TXT file, here are some workarounds to help you get going.

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s.

Linux includes a number of ways for counting lines, words and characters in text and for making modifications that help count the words. Some are just a bit more complex than others.