Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time

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Get an instant breakdown of any text โ€” words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, average word length, and estimated reading and speaking time. Useful for blog posts, essays, social media drafts, and SEO meta descriptions.

How to count words and characters

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Paste your text

Type or paste any text into the editor. The counter updates as you type.

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Read the stats

Word, character, sentence and paragraph counts appear instantly below the editor.

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Use the limits

Use the count to fit Twitter posts, meta descriptions or essay limits.

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Full text statistics

Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and average lengths โ€” all updated live.

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Reading time

Estimates reading and speaking time using standard 200 WPM and 130 WPM rates.

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Top keywords

Highlights the most-used words to help with SEO and content density.

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100% private

Your text never leaves the browser โ€” nothing is sent to any server.

FAQ

Words are sequences of non-whitespace characters separated by spaces or line breaks.

Both counts are shown โ€” characters including spaces and excluding spaces.

Reading time uses 200 words per minute and speaking time uses 130 words per minute, both common averages for adult English readers.

Yes. The counter splits on whitespace, which works for any language using spaces.

No hard limit โ€” you can paste documents with hundreds of thousands of characters.

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