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HTML

<textarea>what ever  paragraph words   herehcggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg </textarea>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
    var count = 0;
    function fn(){
        count++;
        return ' ';
    }
    var x= $('textarea').text().trim();
    console.log(x);
    x= x.replace(/[\s]+/ig,fn);
    var words = count+1;
    count = 0;
    console.log(x);
});